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渗

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to seep; to ooze; to horrify

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Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
11
Radical
水 +8
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
滲
Common rank
#2,434
Unicode
U+6E17

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Formation & memory

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How 渗 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

氵 meaning “water” + 参 sound ( cān )

Components 氵 参

How to remember it

seep · Heisig RSH #2705

水 water + brawl

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 渗

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
渗出物 shèn chū wù exudate
反渗透法 Fǎn shèn tòu fǎ (Tw) Anti-infiltration Act (2020), which regulates the influence of entities deemed foreig…
反渗透 fǎn shèn tòu anti-infiltration (measures taken against subversive external forces); (chemistry) reverse…
渗人 shèn rén horrifying; creepy
渗水 shèn shuǐ water seepage
渗出 shèn chū to seep out; to exude
渗色 shèn sè bleeding
渗流 shèn liú to ooze; to seep
渗透压 shèn tòu yā osmotic pressure
渗入 shèn rù to permeate
逆渗透 nì shèn tòu reverse osmosis
渗透 shèn tòu (lit. and fig.) to permeate; to seep into; (of a product, idea etc) to penetrate (in a pop…
渗凉 shèn liáng to feel the penetrating chill of cold air
渗漏 shèn lòu seepage; leakage
渗析 shèn xī dialysis
渗碳 shèn tàn carburization
渗沟 shèn gōu sewer
渗坑 shèn kēng sewage pit
渗滤壶 shèn lǜ hú coffee percolator
渗滤 shèn lǜ percolation

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 参 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
参 sound part cān to take part in, to intervene; ginseng
惨 cǎn miserable, wretched; cruel, inhuman
掺 chān to mix, to blend, to adulterate
碜 chěn gritty
糁 sǎn to mix; a grain of rice
毵 sān long feathers; scraggy
骖 cān the two outside horses in a team of four
黪 cǎn grey-black