immerse

Phonosemantic compound. (water) represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

需 sound component

  Sound component

  

need

Evolution

濡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

immerse, moisten; wet, damp; dilatory; to moisten

Most common words with 濡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

相濡以沫

mutual help in humble circumstances

耳濡目染

to be influenced

dilatory

濡湿

to moisten

濡染

to infect

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*no

nyu

wet, glossy


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4566th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+6FE1

Shuowen

“濡,水。出涿郡故安,東入漆涑。从水,需聲。”


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