HSK 6 · Verbs

沐浴 mùyù “to bathe” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 沐浴 means

  1. to bathe
  2. to be immersed in
  3. to take a bath
  4. (fig.) to be bathed in

How to say 沐浴

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale沐mù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale浴yù4th tone, falling

沐浴 in a sentence

  1. 丘陵沐浴在阳光下。

    Qiūlíng mùyù zài yángguāng xià.

    The hills are bathed in sunlight.

    Sentence #426301 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 小木屋沐浴在月光之中。

    Xiǎo mùwū mùyù zài yuèguāng zhī zhōng.

    The little cabin was bathed in moonlight.

    Sentence #2680869 from Tatoeba

  3. 我不用沐浴露。

    Wǒ bú yòng mùyùlù.

    I don’t use body wash.

    Sentence #1409463 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 沐浴 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 沐 (mù) with each of its parts in a different colour
沐mùto bathe
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 木tree · mùSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 木 (mù) hints at the sound. Compare it with mù.

The character 浴 (yù) with each of its parts in a different colour
浴yùbath
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 谷valley · gǔSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 谷 (gǔ) hints at the sound. Compare it with yù.

How to write 沐浴

沐 7 strokes · 浴 10 strokes

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沐浴 (mùyù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 沐浴 (mùyù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 沐浴

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FAQs

沐浴 (mùyù) means “to bathe” or “to be immersed in”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it mùyù: mù with a 4th tone, then yù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 沐浴 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type muyu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 沐浴 from the suggestions. Typing muyu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
沐浴 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.