adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) damp; moist; to moisten

Examples

渭城
Wèichéng zhāo yǔ yì qīng chén.
Morning rain at Weicheng dampens the light dust.

Tips

history
'damp' is not used independently in modern Chinese. It is best known from Wang Wei's farewell poem line 渭城. The phonetic is .
register
Archaic and literary only, found in classical poetry and etymology notes, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
shuǐ
water
is the water radical in left-side form. It carries the meaning: describes something wet or being moistened.
phonetic
town; settlement
supplies the sound yì. The same phonetic appears in (to scoop) and (worried).

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