濡

rú

verb

Meanings

1 to moisten
2 to soak
3 to dip

Characters

濡

rú

to moisten; to soak

Examples

HSK 7-9

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.

HSK 7-9

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