Sinograph Addenda · Signs

沐washing · mù · to wash the hair; to bathe in

washing

Where it comes from

Water 氵 for the meaning — washing is water-business — and your tree 木tree · mù · tree; wood for nothing but its sound: 木tree · mù · tree; wood is mù, and so is 沐washing · mù · to wash the hair; to bathe in. The course’s first sound-carrier compound, and the page where 水water · shuǐ · water; a river learns its squeezed side-form. Taught in the roots-and-tips chapter.

How to remember it

Water on the left tells you what it is about; the tree on the right only hums the syllable. Washing — mù — the script’s engine running in one character.

In the wild