濕
shī HSK4

wet

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

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component

water

㬎
㬎 Sound component
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsyip[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)