shù

gargle

To gargle water  also provides the pronunciation

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

欶 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

shuò

  

to suck, drink

Evolution

漱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
漱 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shù

gargle, rinse; wash, scour; to rinse one's mouth with water; to gargle

() 

shù

variant of [shù]

Most common words with 漱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

漱口

to gargle

to gargle

洗漱

to wash the face and rinse the mouth

梁漱溟

Liang Shuming (1893-1988), modern philosopher and teacher in the neo-Confucian tradition

夏目漱石

Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916), one of the first modern Japanese novelists

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]rok-s

srjuwH

shù

wash


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2334% of movies

3238th most common character in movies

3402nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+6F31

Shuowen

“漱,盪口也。从水,欶聲。”


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