湿度 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

shī wet Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 显 represents the sound. Simplified form of 濕.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

显 Sound component

xiǎn evident, make visible, clear

Change in sound

湿 and 显 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

dù, du measure

Phonosemantic compound. 又 represents the meaning (using a hand to measure something) and 石 represents the sound.

Components

石 Sound component

shí stone

Change in sound

度 and 石 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
度 *[d]ˤak
石 *dAk

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 石 than it was in ancient scripts.

又 Iconic component

yòu hand

Depicts a hand measuring something.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

渡踱镀

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	duH	[d]ˤak-s	measure (n.)
	dak	[d]ˤak	measure (v.)

說文解字

法制也。从又，庶省聲。

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

shī wet Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 㬎 represents the sound.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

water

㬎 Sound component

xiǎn visible, bright

Change in sound

濕 and 㬎 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
濕 *[qʰ]ip
㬎 *qʰˤenʔ

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	syip	[qʰ]ip	to flap (sc. the ears)

說文解字

《說文》：“濕，水。出東郡東武陽，入海。从水，聲。桑欽云：出平原高唐。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

湿 shī wet Simplified

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度 dù, du measure

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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濕 shī wet Traditional

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

shī wet Simplified

dù, du measure

shī wet Traditional