Meaning & readings
wet, be watered, profit by, receive benefits, favor, charm, steep
On’yomi ジュン
Kun’yomi うるお.う、うるお.す、うる.む
Nanori めぐみ
Origin
The left component, meaning water, shows this character is about liquid or moisture. The right component serves as a sound hint, telling you roughly how to pronounce the character without adding meaning of its own. Together, the water radical combined with this sound element creates a character that means "wet" or "to moisten"—the idea of water making something damp or bringing benefit, like rain watering crops or a favorable circumstance enriching someone's life.
Components
- 氵
- 閏
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 15
- Kangxi radical
- 85
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1644 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+06F64