Dong Chinese dictionary

shī

wet

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

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

water

㬎 Sound component

xiǎn

visible, bright

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

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

shī

wet, moist, humid, damp; an illness; moist; wet

Most common words with 濕

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