Meaning & readings
immersed, soak, dip, steep, moisten, wet, dunk
On’yomi シン
Kun’yomi ひた.す、ひた.る、つ.かる
Origin
The character combines the water radical on the left, which shows this word relates to liquids, with a sound-hint component on the right that suggests the pronunciation shin. The right side doesn't contribute to the meaning—it's there mainly to indicate how the character should be spoken. Together, the water radical paired with this sound hint creates a character meaning to soak or immerse something in liquid, capturing the core idea of water soaking into or surrounding an object.
Components
- 氵
- けいがしら+冖+又
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 10
- Kangxi radical
- 85
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1447 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+06D78