润
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moist; glossy; sleek; to moisten; to lubricate; to embellish; to enhance; profit; remuneration; (neologism c. 2021) (slang) (loanword from "run") to emigrate (in order to flee adverse conditions)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 水 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 潤
- Common rank
- #1,443
- Unicode
- U+6DA6
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Formation & memory
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How 润 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 闰 sound ()
Components 氵 闰
How to remember it
moisten · Heisig RSH #2620
水 water + 门 gate + jewel
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 润
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大润发 | RT Mart (supermarket chain) | |
| 华润万家 | CR Vanguard or China Resources Vanguard Shop, a supermarket chain in Hong Kong and mainlan… | |
| 润州区 | Runzhou, a district of Zhenjiang City 鎮江市|镇江市[Zhen4 jiang1 Shi4], Jiangsu | |
| 周润发 | Chow Yun-Fat (1955-), Hong Kong TV and film star | |
| 利润率 | profit margin | |
| 润发露 | hair conditioner | |
| 润发乳 | hair conditioner | |
| 超额利润 | superprofit; excess profit | |
| 润学 | (neologism) (slang) study of how to flee from adverse conditions in China by emigrating | |
| 马润 | (slang) (loanword) the US Marines; a Marine | |
| 丰润区 | Fengrun, a district of Tangshan City 唐山市[Tang2 shan1 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 利润 | profits | |
| 光润 | glossy; lustrous; sleek | |
| 红润 | ruddy; rosy; florid | |
| 润肠通便 | to cure constipation with laxatives | |
| 润色 | to polish (a piece of writing); to add a few finishing touches to (a piece of writing, pai… | |
| 润州 | see 潤州區|润州区[Run4 zhou1 Qu1] | |
| 润发液 | hair conditioner | |
| 润滑油 | lubricating oil | |
| 珠圆玉润 | lit. as round as pearls and as smooth as jade (idiom); fig. elegant and polished (of singi… |