濕

See also 湿

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 水 (“water”) + 㬎

Han character

濕 (radical 85 水+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 水日女火 (EAVF), four-corner 3613₃)

1. wet, moist, humid, damp
2. an illness

References

• KangXi: page 655, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18483
• Dae Jaweon: page 1065, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1769, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6FD5

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Cantonese

Hanzi

濕 (simplified 湿, Yale sap1)

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Japanese

Kanji

濕

Readings

• On: しつ (shitsu), しゅう (shū)
• Kun: しめる (shimeru)

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Korean

Hanja

濕 (hangeul 습, revised seup, McCune-Reischauer sŭp, Yale sup)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

濕 (simplified 湿, pinyin qì (qi4), shī (shi1), tà (ta4), xí (xi2), Wade-Giles ch'i⁴, shih¹, t'a⁴, hsi²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

濕 (thấp)