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澍

shù
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (literary) timely rain; a beneficial downpour
  2. 2 (literary) to moisten; to soak

Examples

及时雨润万物，古人称之为澍。
Jíshí yǔ rùn wànwù, gǔrén chēng zhī wéi shù.
A timely rain moistens all living things — the ancients called it shu.

Tips

history
澍 is literary and not used independently in modern Chinese, surviving chiefly in names. The everyday phrase is 及时雨 ('timely rain'). It also has a reading zhù meaning 'to pour / irrigate'.
register
Classical and literary only — appears in old prose praising seasonable rain and in personal names, not in everyday language.

Components

radical
氵 shuǐ
water
氵 is the water radical 水 in left-side form, fitting a word about rain that soaks and moistens.
phonetic
尌 shù
to set upright; to establish
尌 supplies the sound shù. The same phonetic root appears in 树 (tree, in its traditional form 樹) and 厨 (kitchen).

Stroke Order

澍 shù