溼

See also: 湿

溼 U+6EBC, 溼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EBC ← 溻 [U+6EBB] CJK Unified Ideographs 溽 → [U+6EBD]

Translingual

Han character

溼 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水一女土 (EMVG), four-corner 3111₄, composition ⿰氵𡌥)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 641, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17992
• Dae Jaweon: page 1048, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1697, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6EBC

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (濕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
儑	*ŋɯːms, *ŋɯːb, *ŋaːb
濕	*ŋ̊ʰl'ɯːb, *hŋjɯb
漯	*tŋ̊ʰɯːb
礘	*ŋɯːb
隰	*ljɯb
溼	*hŋjɯb

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 溼 – see 濕 (“wet; damp; moist; humid; delayed; impassable; etc.”). (This character is a variant traditional form of 濕).

Japanese

Kanji

溼

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しふ (sifu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しふ (sifu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: しつ (shitsu)
• Kun: しめる (shimeru, 溼る)、しめす (shimesu, 溼す)、うるおう (uruou, 溼う)、うるおす (uruosu, 溼す)