沐 (mù): to bathe, to cleanse, to receive
沐 (mù) is a Chinese character meaning “to bathe.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 氵 (semantic) and 木 (phonetic). It ranks #2919 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 沐 water. Its radical form 氵 (water) appears in many related characters such as 水 (shuǐ, water), 汉 (hàn, Han ethnic group), 汽 (qì, steam).
Definitions
- to bathe
- to cleanse
- to receive
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沐浴 | mù yù | to take a bath |
| 沐浴用品 | mù yù yòng pǐn | bath product |
| 沐雨栉风 | mù yǔ zhì fēng | to work unceasingly regardless of the weather (idiom) |
| 栉风沐雨 | zhì fēng mù yǔ | lit. to comb one's hair in the wind and wash it in the rain (idiom) |
| 沐猴而冠 | mù hóu ér guàn | lit. a monkey wearing a hat (idiom) |
| 沐浴花 | mù yù huā | shower puff |
| 香汤沐浴 | xiāng tāng mù yù | to bathe in a fragrant hot spring (idiom) |
| 沐浴球 | mù yù qiú | shower puff |
| 沐恩 | mù ēn | to receive favor |
| 沐川县 | mù chuān xiàn | Muchuan county in Leshan 樂山|乐山[Le4 shan1], Sichuan |
| 沐浴露 | mù yù lù | shower gel |
| 沐浴油 | mù yù yóu | bath oil |
| 休沐 | xiū mù | (literary) a regular day off granted to officials in ancient times, for "rest and bathing" |
| 沐川 | mù chuān | Muchuan county in Leshan 樂山|乐山[Le4 shan1], Sichuan |
| 沐浴乳 | mù yù rǔ | body wash (liquid soap) |
沐 appears in 15 compound words: 80 as the first character, 7 as the last, and 13 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 沐 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (3)
Example Sentences
站在桥上望去，沐水缓缓向东流去。
zhàn zài qiáo shǎng wàng qù , mù shuǐ huǎn huǎn xiàng dōng liú qù .
Standing on the bridge, one can see the river flowing gently eastward.
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jiāng mù yáng : 2 . 2 5 guó jì huáng jīn yuán yóu zǒu shì fēn xī cāo zuò sī lù . . .
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小木屋沐浴在月光之中。
Xiǎo mù wū mùyù zài yuèguāng zhīzhōng.
The little cabin was bathed in moonlight.
Character Family
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