Chinese symbol for “wet”
打湿
dǎ shī
Traditional: 打濕
to wet
The closest CC-CEDICT match for wet is 打湿 (dǎ shī), defined as: to wet.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “wet”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 雨 | yù | (literary) to rain; (of rain, snow etc) to fall |
| 湿 (濕) | shī | moist; wet |
| 润湿 (潤濕) | rùn shī | to moisten (e.g. of rain); to wet |
| 浃 (浹) | jiā | soaked; to wet |
| 裛 | yì | to wrap and bind; damp |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 打湿.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 打开 (打開) | dǎ kāi | to open; to show (a ticket) |
| 打击 (打擊) | dǎ jī | to hit; to strike |
| 打算 | dǎ suàn | to plan; to intend |
| 打电话 (打電話) | dǎ diàn huà | to make a telephone call |
| 打破 | dǎ pò | to break; to smash |
| 打败 (打敗) | dǎ bài | to defeat; to overpower |
| 湿地 (溼地) | shī dì | variant of 湿地 (shī dì) |
| 潮湿 (潮濕) | cháo shī | damp; moist |
See also: Japanese symbol for “wet”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.