moisten

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

屋 sound component

  Sound component

  

house, room

Evolution

渥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
渥 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
渥 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
渥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

moisten, soak; great, deep; dye; to enrich; to moisten

Most common words with 渥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to enrich

渥太华

Ottawa, capital of Canada

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qˤrok (or *ʔˤrok ?)

'aewk

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。”


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