渋

sè
noun #31,030

Meanings

  1. 1 astringent, puckery taste; subdued, refined elegance
  2. 2 variant of 涩 (sè) "astringent"

Examples

HSK 5
Sè gǔ shì Dōngjīng yǒumíng de gòuwù qū.
Shibuya is a famous shopping district in Tokyo.
HSK 7-9
Zhège zì shì Rìběn Hànzì " sè ", xiāngdāngyú Zhōngwén de " sè ".
This character is the Japanese kanji 渋, equivalent to Chinese 涩.

Tips

culture
渋 is the Japanese shinjitai (simplified form) of 澀, while Mainland Chinese simplifies it differently as 涩. So in Chinese contexts 渋 is essentially a foreign character - most often encountered in Japanese place names like 渋谷 (Shibuya, Tokyo's youth-fashion district) or surnames. Reading: sè in Mandarin.
mistakes
If you see 渋 in a Chinese text, it's almost certainly imported from Japanese - don't confuse it with 涩, the standard PRC simplification. Both share the same root meaning ("astringent, rough, hard to swallow") and both come from traditional 澀.

Components

radical
氵 shuǐ
water (radical form of 水)
Three-drops water on the left - indexes 渋 in the liquid family with 河, 海, 涩. The character names the puckering, mouth-drying sensation from unripe persimmons or strong tea - a quality of liquids and pulps - so the water radical anchors the sensory category.
phonetic
歮 sè
rough; astringent (right body)
Right portion - a Japanese-style contraction of the older astringent graph (two feet treading clay, original meaning 'rough underfoot, sluggish'), reduced here into a single fused unit. Standalone analysis fails for this variant; the right block is best read as one body carrying the sè reading and the astringent / sluggish sense intact.

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Stroke Order

渋 sè