damp

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
be like

Character Evolution

Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartnyonaname of a river
nyoHna-swet ground
Zhengzhangnja
njas

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica