濡寫简体濡写

rú xiè

Damp soaking and draining · ru xie

Also rendered: Damp soaking and draining (this site; both verbs are kept because the compound names a process and not only its outcome) · Ru xie (transliteration; used when the run of five conquests is cited whole)

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Reviewed · 2026-10-11

At a glance

Pinyin: rú xiè
Simplified: 濡写
Literal: 濡 rú — to soak, to moisten (《說文》: 濡，水。出涿郡故安，東入漆涑：a river name, borrowed for soaking); 寫 xiè — the old graph for 瀉, to drain away, which is how this site's base text writes it. Dampness soaking and draining is the fifth of the chapter's five conquests, and the only one of the five that names a discharge. Suwen 5 gives the run in one sentence: 風勝則動，熱勝則腫，燥勝則乾，寒勝則浮，濕勝則濡寫.
Shuowen: **「濡寫」本篇1見**；**「濡」讀 rú，本篇1見**；**「寫」讀 xiè，即瀉之古字，本篇1見**；**《說文》：濡，水。出涿郡故安，東入漆涑**；**底本作「寫」，通行本作「瀉」，此從底本**

In brief

Dampness soaking into the body and then draining out of it — the fifth of the chapter’s five conquests, and the only one that names a discharge. Suwen 5 gives the run in a single sentence: wind overcomes and the body moves, heat overcomes and it swells, dryness overcomes and it dries, cold overcomes and it floats, dampness overcomes and it soaks and drains. The word holds both halves of what dampness does — it soaks first and drains afterwards — and this site’s base text keeps the old graph 寫 where modern texts print 瀉. The chapter’s other statement of the same relationship comes in the five phases: 濕傷肉，風勝濕.

Senses in the classical corpus

The graphs 濡寫

濡者浸潤，寫者傾瀉，寫即瀉之古字

濕勝則濡寫 — Suwen 5

The agent 濕勝

濕氣過勝則傷人

濕勝則濡寫 — Suwen 5

What it does first 濡

濕性濡潤，先浸淫於肌腠

濕勝則濡寫 — Suwen 5

What it does then 寫

濡久則下泄而為濡寫

濕勝則濡寫 — Suwen 5

Its place in the run of five 燥勝則乾

五勝之序：動、腫、乾、浮、濡寫

風勝則動，熱勝則腫，燥勝則乾，寒勝則浮，濕勝則濡寫 — Suwen 5

What overcomes it 風勝濕

濕傷肉而風勝濕

濕傷肉，風勝濕 — Suwen 5

Occurrences in the classics

Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.

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素問·陰陽應象大論 Suwen 5 · 陰陽應象大論 Read in context →

故先痛而後腫者，氣傷形也；先腫而後痛者，形傷氣也。風勝則動，熱勝則腫，燥勝則乾，寒勝則浮，濕勝則濡寫。故先痛而后肿者，气伤形也；先肿而后痛者，形伤气也。风胜则动，热胜则肿，燥胜则干，寒胜则浮，湿胜则濡泻。

gù xiān tòng ér hòu zhǒng zhě, qì shāng xíng yě; xiān zhǒng ér hòu tòng zhě, xíng shāng qì yě. fēng shèng zé dòng, rè shèng zé zhǒng, zào shèng zé gān, hán shèng zé fú, shī shèng zé rú xiè.

Thus when pain comes first and swelling after, qi has damaged form; when swelling comes first and pain after, form has damaged qi. Wind prevailing gives movement; heat prevailing gives swelling; dryness prevailing gives desiccation; cold prevailing gives floating oedema; dampness prevailing gives watery diarrhoea.

**「濡寫」本篇1見**；**「濕」本篇9見，見本站第九〇四條**；**「風」本篇13見，見本站第一二〇〇條**；**「寫」讀 xiè，本篇1見（底本作寫，通行本作瀉）**

Compounds built on this term

濕勝則濡寫

shī shèng zé rú xiè

when dampness overcomes, there is soaking and draining

本篇1見

風勝則動

fēng shèng zé dòng

when wind overcomes, there is movement

本篇1見

燥勝則乾

zào shèng zé gān

when dryness overcomes, there is drying

本篇1見

寒勝則浮

hán shèng zé fú

when cold overcomes, there is floating

本篇1見

How it has been translated

Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.

This site	Damp soaking and draining · ru xie	keeps 濡 as soaking and 寫 in its old sense of draining, so the two stages stay visible
Literal	soaking and draining	plain, and faithful to both graphs
Clinical	damp diarrhoea	what the phrase comes to in practice; right about the outcome, silent about the soaking that comes first

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