Meaning & readings
submerge, conceal, hide, lower (voice), hush
Origin
The left side shows the water radical, indicating this character relates to water and submersion. The right component is a sound hint that tells you roughly how to pronounce the character. Together they create a word meaning to go underwater, hide, or become concealed — the idea being that things disappear when submerged in water or hidden away. The water radical is what anchors the meaning to concepts of drowning, diving, and things vanishing beneath the surface.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 氵
- 替
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 15
- Kangxi radical
- 85
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1329 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+06F5C