Meaning & readings
wet, be watered, profit by, receive benefits, favor, charm, steep
Origin
The left component, meaning water, shows this character is about liquid or moisture. The right component serves as a sound hint, telling you roughly how to pronounce the character without adding meaning of its own. Together, the water radical combined with this sound element creates a character that means "wet" or "to moisten"—the idea of water making something damp or bringing benefit, like rain watering crops or a favorable circumstance enriching someone's life.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 氵
- 閏
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
- #1644 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+06F64