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渋

sè
noun #31,030

Meanings

  1. 1 (Japanese kanji) astringent, puckery taste; subdued, refined elegance
  2. 2 (rare in Chinese) variant of 涩 (sè) "astringent"

Examples

渋谷是东京有名的购物区。
Shìbǔ gǔ shì Dōngjīng yǒumíng de gòuwù qū.
Shibuya is a famous shopping district in Tokyo.
这个字是日本汉字「渋」，相当于中文的「涩」。
Zhège zì shì Rìběn Hànzì 「sè」, xiāngdāng yú 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.

Stroke Order

渋 sè