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濡

濡

Translingual

Han character

濡 (radical 85 水+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 水一月月 (EMBB), four-corner 31127)

  1. immerse, moisten
  2. wet, damp

References

  • KangXi: page 656, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18504
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1066, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1768, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6FE1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 濡

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (需) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
羺 *noː
獳 *noː
擩 *noːs, *njoʔ, *njos, *njul, *njod
譳 *noːs
懦 *noːls, *njo
糯 *noːls
需 *sno
繻 *sno, *njo
鑐 *sno
儒 *njo
濡 *njo, *noːn
襦 *njo
嚅 *njo
顬 *njo
鱬 *njo
嬬 *njo
臑 *njo
醹 *njo, *njoʔ
蠕 *njo
孺 *njos

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 濡 濡
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 日 (38) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 人朱切 乃官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ȵɨo/ /nuɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ȵio/ /nʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȵʑio/ /nuɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ȵuə̆/ /nwan/
Li
Rong		 /ȵio/ /nuɑn/
Wang
Li		 /ȵʑĭu/ /nuɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȵʑi̯u/ /nuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 rú nuán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 濡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 rú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nyu ›
Old
Chinese		 /*no/
English wet, glossy

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 濡 濡
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 13970 13986
Phonetic
component		 需 需
Rime
group		 侯 元
Rime
subdivision		 0 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 儒 濡
Old
Chinese		 /*njo/ /*noːn/
Notes 需轉註字 原列寒韻末，集韻列桓韻

Definitions

濡

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Compounds

  • 以沫相濡
  • 日濡月染
  • 沾濡
  • 洽濡
  • 涵濡
  • 涸鱗濡沫／涸鳞濡沫
  • 澍濡
  • 濡化
  • 濡忍
  • 濡染
  • 濡沫涸轍／濡沫涸辙
  • 濡溼
  • 濡滯／濡滞
  • 濡筆／濡笔
  • 濡跡／濡迹
  • 濡首
  • 狐濡尾
  • 目染耳濡
  • 相呴相濡
  • 相濡以沫
  • 耳染目濡
  • 耳濡目染
  • 霑濡

Japanese

Kanji

濡

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

濡 • ‎(yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Etymology

氵+需

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