音読み: テキ
訓読み: しずく・したたる
画数: 14
部首: さんずい（氵）
Meaning
Drop / Drip / Trickle
- Basic forms
- 滴る — drip; trickle / base form
- 滴ります — drips; trickles / masu form
- 滴った — dripped; trickled / ta form
- 滴って — dripping … / te form
- 滴らない — does not drip / negative
- 滴れば — if (something) drips / conditional
- Common expressions
- 汗が滴る — sweat drips
- 水が葉から滴る — water drips from leaves
- 血が滴っていた — blood was dripping
- More
- 汗が額から滴っている — sweat is dripping from the forehead / state
滴る（したたる） is a godan intransitive verb. It describes liquid slowly dripping or trickling, and is often used in descriptive or literary contexts for sweat, water, or blood.
- 滴 — a drop (of liquid)
- 滴る — to drip; to trickle
- 水滴 — water drop; droplet
- 点滴 — IV drip; infusion
- 雨滴 — raindrop
- 滴下 — dripping; letting fall drop by drop
A phono-semantic character: the left side 氵 marks “water,” while the right side 啇 (pronounced テキ) supplies the sound and the sense of a point or drop. Together they picture liquid gathering and falling in drops — which is why 滴る means “to drip,” and compounds like 点滴 and 滴下 describe slow, measured dripping.