シツ, シュウ, しめ.る, しめ.す, うるお.う, うるお.す

wet, moist, humid, damp, an illness

JLPT0 G13 S0 F5000

The relevant oracle bone form of this character is water + an element# representing bundles of thread pressed together → soften bundles of thread by submerging them in water → *wet*; *moisten*; *damp* → *rain*. There is no etymological connection with the element described in 顯.

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