Origin

This character combines water (shown by the three-dot radical on the left) with a sound hint on the right that suggests how to pronounce it. The water radical makes sense for the meanings because oozing, soaking, and secreting all involve liquid moving slowly through or out of something. The right component is primarily there to tell you how the character sounds, not to add meaning to the word.

AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).