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滲

shèn

soak through

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 參 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

參 sound component

參  Sound component

cān, shēn, sān

  

take part in

Evolution

滲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
滲 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
滲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

渗 (滲) 

shèn

soak through, infiltrate; to seep; to ooze; to horrify

Most common words with 滲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

渗透

to permeate

渗

to seep

渗入

to permeate

渗出

to seep out

渗漏

seepage

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.7482% of movies

2668th most common character in movies

2520th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

渗

Unicode

U+6EF2

Shuowen

“滲，下漉也。从水，參聲。”


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