mù
bathe
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 木 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 沐
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to bathe | ||
to bathe | ||
fig. to work in the open regardless of the weather | ||
lit. a monkey wearing a hat (idiom) | ||
Muchuan county in Leshan 樂山|乐山[Lèshān], Sichuan |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.8581% of movies
3110th most common character in movies
3464th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+6C90 |
Shuowen | “沐,濯髮也。从水,木聲。” |
Sources
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