rùn
adjective HSK 7-9 #10,169

Meanings

  1. 1 moist; smooth; sleek
  2. 2 to moisten; to lubricate
  3. 3 profit; benefit

Examples

Zhège miànshuāng hěn zīrùn.
This face cream is very moisturizing.
Gōngsī jīnnián lìrùn hěn gāo.
The company's profits are high this year.

Tips

usage
滋润 (zīrùn) = moist/nourishing, 利润 (lìrùn) = profit, 润滑 (rùnhuá) = to lubricate.

Components

radical
shuǐ
water (radical form of 水)
Three-drops water radical on the left — the side-form of , three abbreviated waves. The indexing radical: originally meant rainwater seeping down and moistening everything below. Groups with 湿 damp, nourish, marsh — all watery, soaking ideas.
phonetic
rùn
intercalary (extra month)
Right supplies the sound rùn with no tone shift — a clean phonetic. pictures a king () inside a gate (), referring to the leap month a ruler proclaimed when the calendar needed correcting. Pure phonetic role here; the calendar meaning doesn't carry into .

Stroke Order

rùn