濡

rú

verb

Meanings

1 to moisten
2 to soak
3 to dip

Characters

濡

rú

to moisten; to soak

Examples

在这种环境中长大，孩子耳濡目染。

Zài zhè zhǒng huánjìng zhōng zhǎngdà, háizi ěrrú-mùrǎn.

Growing up in this environment, the child was influenced without realizing it.

他濡墨提笔，开始写字。

Tā rú mò tí bǐ, kāishǐ xiě zì.

He dipped his brush in ink and began to write.

Tips

usage

濡 means to wet or soak. Its best-known use is 耳濡目染 ('ears soaked, eyes dyed'): being shaped little by little by your surroundings, like cloth slowly absorbing dye.

Components

radical

氵 shuǐ

water

The water radical in left-side form. It is the meaning anchor: 濡 is about water soaking into something, hence 'to moisten, to soak'.

phonetic

需 xū

to need; to require

Supplies the sound, xū shifting to rú. Its 'need' meaning does not carry over; here it is purely the phonetic part of the character.

Stroke Order

濡 rú

濡