trickle

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

歷 sound component

  Sound component

  

experience, history

Evolution

瀝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瀝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

trickle, drip; strain; dregs; to drip; to strain or filter; a trickle

Most common words with 瀝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

沥青

asphalt

to drip

呕心沥血

to work one's heart out

淅沥

(onom.) patter of rain

披肝沥胆

lit. to open one's liver and drip gall (idiom); wholehearted loyalty

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3598th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+701D

Shuowen

“瀝,浚也。从水,歷聲。一曰水下滴瀝。”


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