浴
부수: 氵
획수: 10획
浴 has the meanings ‘bathe’ and ‘wash’.
浴 = 氵 + 谷
X = semantic + semantic/phonetic
• 氵 is a component form of 水 and depicts flowing water.
• 谷 depicts spring water (top lines) running through a mountain passage 口. See the historical forms. Originally this meant ‘where spring water connects to a river’. Thus comes the meaning ‘valley’.
Some scholars suggest 谷 carries a sense of ‘scatter’ with this leading to ‘scattering water over oneself’ and thus bathing.
Evolution:
浴 = ’to bathe’ ➔ ’bath’
Mnemonic
Imagine being inside an ancient Roman bathhouse and wading into the tepidarium (warm water 氵 bath 浴). As you begin to relax, the pores 谷 (think valley) in your skin open up.
Vocab
| 沐浴 | 목욕 | bath; bathe |
| 浴槽 | 욕조 | bathtub |
| 浴室 | 욕실 | bathroom |
| 沐浴湯 | 목욕탕 | public bathhouse |
| 沐浴桶 | 목욕통 | bathtub |
| 海水浴 | 해수욕 | bathing (swimming) at the sea |
| 海水浴場 | 해수욕장 | beach |
| 沐浴齋戒 | 목욕재계 | ablution; purification |
| 日光浴 | 일광욕 | sunbathing |
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Bibliography
Affiliate links help support uK.
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 804]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Henshall, K.G. (1998). A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters, [s.v. 595]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 浴, 氵, 谷].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 625]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.