astringent

Original meaning: 

unsmooth

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "unsmooth". The meaning later shifted to "rough" and "astringent".

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

歰 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

unsmooth

Definitions

() 

astringent; harsh; uneven, rough; tart; acerbity; unsmooth; rough (surface); hard to understand; obscure

Most common words with 澀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

tart

苦涩

pained

羞涩

shy

晦涩

cryptic

干涩

hoarse (voice)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6659% of movies

3166th most common character in movies

2836th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+6F80


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