# 濡

| 濡 | U+6FE1, &#28641; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6FE1 |
| ← 濠 [U+6FE0] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 濢 → [U+6FE2] |

## Translingual
### Han character

濡 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 水一月月 (EMBB), four-corner 3112$_7$, composition ⿰氵需)
* immerse, moisten
* wet, damp

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 656, character 8
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18504
* Dae Jaweon: page 1066, character 12
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1768, character 3
* Unihan data for U+6FE1

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 羺 | *noː |
| 獳 | *noː |
| 擩 | *noːs, *njoʔ, *njos, *njul, *njod |
| 譳 | *noːs |
| 懦 | *noːls, *njo |
| 糯 | *noːls |
| 需 | *sno |
| 繻 | *sno, *njo |
| 鑐 | *sno |
| 儒 | *njo |
| 濡 | *njo, *noːn |
| 襦 | *njo |
| 嚅 | *njo |
| 顬 | *njo |
| 鱬 | *njo |
| 嬬 | *njo |
| 臑 | *njo |
| 醹 | *njo, *njoʔ |
| 蠕 | *njo |
| 孺 | *njos |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *njo, *noːn) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 需 (OC *sno).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): rú, róu (ru$^2$, rou$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨˊ, ㄖㄡˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): jû / su
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: rú
*** Zhuyin: ㄖㄨˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: rú
*** Wade–Giles: ju$^2$
*** Yale: rú
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ru
*** Palladius: жу (žu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʐu³⁵/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: róu
*** Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: róu
*** Wade–Giles: jou$^2$
*** Yale: róu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rou
*** Palladius: жоу (žou)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʐoʊ̯³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jyu$^4$
*** Yale: yùh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jy$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /jyː²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jû / su
*** Tâi-lô: jû / su
*** Phofsit Daibuun: juu, sw
*** IPA (Xiamen): /d͡zu²⁴/, /su⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /d͡zu²⁴/, /su³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zu¹³/, /su⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /d͡zu²⁴/, /su⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /zu²³/, /su⁴⁴/
* Middle Chinese: nyu, nwan
Rime :
| Character | 濡 | 濡 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 日 (38) | 泥 (8) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) | 桓 (62) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | III | I |
| Fanqie | 人朱切 | 乃官切 |
| Baxter | nyu | nwan |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ȵɨo/ | /nuɑn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ȵio/ | /nʷɑn/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ȵʑio/ | /nuɑn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ȵuə̆/ | /nwan/ |
| Li Rong | /ȵio/ | /nuɑn/ |
| Wang Li | /ȵʑĭu/ | /nuɑn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ȵʑi̯u/ | /nuɑn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | rú | nuán |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jyu$^4$ | nyun$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*no/
    (Zhengzhang): /*njo/, /*noːn/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 濡 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | rú |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ nyu › |
| Old Chinese | /*no/ |
| English | wet, glossy |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 濡 | 濡 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 13970 | 13986 |
| Phonetic component | 需 | 需 |
| Rime group | 侯 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 儒 | 濡 |
| Old Chinese | /*njo/ | /*noːn/ |
| Notes | 需轉註字 | 原列寒韻末，集韻列桓韻 |

### Definitions

濡
* immerse, moisten
* wet, damp
* Used in 濡忍.

### Compounds

* 以沫相濡
* 日濡月染
* 沾濡
* 洽濡
* 涵濡
* 涸鱗濡沫／涸鳞濡沫
* 澍濡
* 濡化
* 濡忍
* 濡染
* 濡沫涸轍／濡沫涸辙
* 濡溼／濡湿 (rúshī)
* 濡滯／濡滞
* 濡筆／濡笔
* 濡跡／濡迹
* 濡首
* 狐濡尾
* 目染耳濡 (mùrǎn'ěrrú)
* 相呴相濡
* 相濡以沫 (xiāngrúyǐmò)
* 耳染目濡 (ěrrǎnmùrú)
* 耳濡目染 (ěrrúmùrǎn)
* 霑濡／沾濡

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
* wet

#### Readings

* Go-on: にゅう (nyū)
* Kan-on: じゅ (ju)
* Kun: ぬれる (nureru, 濡れる)、ぬれる (nureru, 濡る)、ぬらす (nurasu, 濡らす)、ぬらす (nurasu, 濡す)、うるおう (uruou, 濡う)、うるおす (uruosu, 濡す)

## Korean
### Hanja

濡 (eum 유 (yu))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

濡: Hán Nôm readings: nhụa
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