Taxonomy of meanings for 潤:　　

  • 潤 rùn (OC: njuns MC: ȵʷin) 如順切 去 廣韻：【潤澤也又益也 】
    • EMBELLISH
      • vtoNadorn, give lustre to
      • vadNpolished upCH
    • FLOURISH
      • vadNabundant; (irritatingly) abundant
      • vibe abundant; be in strong shape
    • IRRIGATE
      • vtoNmake wet and fertile
    • MOIST
      • nmmoisture
      • nmfigurativeenriching influence
      • vadNmoist and glossy
      • vibe moist; contain a high moisture content
      • vtoNcausativemoisten
    • RAIN
      • BRIGHT
        • MERIT
          • PROFIT
            • BEAUTIFUL
              • nabfeaturetranslucent beautyCH
            • LENIENT
              • RICH
                • INFLUENCE
                  • RIVERS
                    • REGIONS
                    • rùnGENEROUS
                      • NPabactmunificenceCH

                    Additional information about 潤

                    說文解字: 【潤】，水曰潤下。 〔小徐本無「曰」。〕 从水、閏聲。 【如順切】

                      Criteria
                    • DRY

                      1. The common general term for dryness is zào 燥 (ant. shī 濕 "wet").

                      2. Gǎo 槁 and kū 枯 (ant. rùn 潤 "lush") are common words referring specifically to dryness of trees and sometimes other plants.

                      3. Hé/hào 涸 (ant. mǎn 滿 "full of water") views dryness as the result of a process of dissication.

                      4. Gān 乾 (ant. shī 濕 "wet") focusses on the striking and complete absence of liquid.

                      5. Jié 渴 merely emphasises insufficient water supply or exhaustion of water supplies.

                      6. Jiāo 焦 adds to the notion of dryness that of exceesive heat.

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                    • WITHER

                      1. The current general word for anything drying up or withering down, also anything like fish which because of lack of water starts rotting, is kū 枯 (ant. rùn 潤 "moist and lush" and róng 榮 "flourish and thrive").

                      2. Gǎo 槁 refers specifically to the withering of plants, or to their withered state. The combination kū gǎo 枯槁 is idiomatic.

                      3. Wěi 萎 (ant. shèng 盛 "rich and flourishing") refers to plants (and in a transferred usually permanent sense male sexual organs!) shrivilling up and drying out.

                      4. Diāo 凋 (ant. mào 茂 "be flourishing") refers to whole plants withering and losing their leaves as a result, but the word may also refer to the loss of leaved because of frost.

                      5. Luò 落 refers abstractly and colourlessly to trees losing their leaves.

                      6. Líng 零 refers in a more dramatic way to plants other than trees losing their leaves.

                    • EMBELLISH

                      1. The current general word for embellishment of anything concrete or abstract is shì 飾.

                      2. Rùn 潤 refers to adding lustre and giving something a sumptuous appearance, and the word is always used in literal senses.

                      3. Xiū 修 refers to an effort of elevated figurative embellishment and cultivation typically of an abstract kind, as in 修身.

                    • MOIST

                      1. Shī 濕 refers to wetness as a property of surface or of the whole object.

                      2. The current common word is rú 濡, and this word refers to being wet through and through.

                      3. Zhān 沾 / 霑 refers to moistening by rain.

                      4. Rùn 潤 refers to things that are mildly moistened (and look glossy).

                      5. Jiàn 漸 refers to things getting gradually moistened.

                      6. Wò 渥 is a poetic referring to something being wet on the outside.

                      7. Jìn 浸 refers to water seeping into something so as to make it moist, and the word focusses not on something getting wet, but on the water seeping into it. The word is thus marginal in the group.