wò
moisten
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 屋 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qˤrok (or *ʔˤrok ?) | 'aewk | wò | moisten, smear |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4191st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6E25 |
Shuowen | “渥,霑也。从水,屋聲。” |
Sources
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