water

Origin & mnemonic

The water radical originates from a pictograph depicting flowing water. In seal script, it consists of three vertical strokes (representing streams of water) with a horizontal stroke in the middle (indicating the water surface), forming a wave-like shape.

Mnemonic: Three lines piercing through the middle represent three streams of water flowing across a wave's surface.

• 澉gǎn🔊

  place name

  14 strokes

• 潘pān🔊

  (archaic) water in which rice has been washed

  15 strokes

• 潮cháo🔊

  tide

  HSK 4

  15 strokes

• 澈chè🔊

  clear (water)

  15 strokes

• 潜qián🔊

  hidden

  15 strokes

• 滕Téng🔊

  vassal state of Zhou in Shandong

  15 strokes

• 澄chéng🔊

  variant of 澄[cheng2]

  15 strokes

• 㵐Jué🔊

  Jue River in Hubei

  15 strokes

• 漦lí🔊

  go with current

  15 strokes

• 潏jué🔊

  to bubble up

  15 strokes

• 潗jí🔊

  friendly

  15 strokes

• 潝xī🔊

  to agree

  15 strokes

• 潟xì🔊

  saline land

  15 strokes

• 潠xùn🔊

  spurt out of the mouth

  15 strokes

• 潦liáo🔊

  used in 潦草[liao2 cao3]

  15 strokes

• 潭tán🔊

  deep pool

  15 strokes

• 潲shào🔊

  driving rain

  15 strokes

• 潵sǎ🔊

  old variant of 撒[sa3]

  15 strokes

• 潸shān🔊

  tearfully

  15 strokes

• 潺chán🔊

  flow

  15 strokes

• 潼tóng🔊

  high

  15 strokes

• 潽pū🔊

  to boil over

  15 strokes

• 潾lín🔊

  clear (as of water)

  15 strokes

• 澌sī🔊

  drain dry

  15 strokes

• 澍shù🔊

  moisture

  15 strokes

• 澎péng🔊

  used in 澎湃[peng2 pai4]

  15 strokes

• 澔hào🔊

  grand

  15 strokes

• 澙xì🔊

  variant of 潟[xi4]

  15 strokes

• 澛lǔ🔊

  (used in place names)

  15 strokes

• 澜lán🔊

  swelling water

  15 strokes

• 澳ào🔊

  deep bay; cove; harbor

  15 strokes

• 濈jí🔊

  many

  15 strokes

• 濍sōng🔊

  (onom.) sound of water

  15 strokes

• 澡zǎo🔊

  bath

  16 strokes

• 蒙méng🔊

  to cover

  HSK 6

  16 strokes

• 激jī🔊

  to arouse

  16 strokes

• 㵪xián🔊

  variant of 涎[xian2]

  16 strokes

• 㵮chún🔊

  clear water

  16 strokes

• 潞Lù🔊

  name of a river

  16 strokes

• 澃jiǒng🔊

  clear

  16 strokes

• 澟lǐn🔊

  old variant of 凜|凛[lin3]

  16 strokes

• 澥xiè🔊

  (of porridge etc) to become watery

  16 strokes

• 澧Lǐ🔊

  Lishui River in north Hunan, flowing into Lake Dongting 洞庭湖[Dong4 ting2 Hu2]

  16 strokes

• 澨shì🔊

  bank

  16 strokes

• 澴huán🔊

  to return (of waves)

  16 strokes

• 澶chán🔊

  still (as of water)

  16 strokes

• 澹dàn🔊

  tranquil

  16 strokes

• 澼pì🔊

  bleach

  16 strokes