yù
bathe
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 谷 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 浴
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
bath | ||
bathroom (room used for bathing) | ||
bathtub | ||
to bathe | ||
shower |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 20.1826% of movies
1451st most common character in movies
2290th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+6D74 |
Shuowen | “浴,洒身也。从水,谷聲。” |
Sources
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