shī

damp

Evolution

溼 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
溼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

shī

damp, moist; dampness, moisture

湿 () 

shī

variant of |湿[shī]

Most common words with 溼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

湿

moist

潮湿

damp

湿地

wetland

湿度

humidity level

湿润

moist

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-[qʰ][i]p

syip

shī

low wet ground


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.4001% of movies

1797th most common character in movies

1743rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+6EBC

Shuowen

“溼,幽溼也。从水;一,所以覆也,覆而有土,故溼也;省聲。”


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