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.

• 沦lún🔊

  to sink (into ruin, oblivion)

  11 strokes

• 淬cuì🔊

  dip into water

  11 strokes

• 淯Yù🔊

  name of river

  11 strokes

• 淰niǎn🔊

  calm water

  11 strokes

• 淳chún🔊

  genuine

  11 strokes

• 涞lái🔊

  brook

  11 strokes

• 渊yuān🔊

  deep pool

  11 strokes

• 渍zì🔊

  to soak

  11 strokes

• 渎dú🔊

  disrespectful

  11 strokes

• 渐jiàn🔊

  gradual

  11 strokes

• 渑miǎn🔊

  used in 澠池|渑池[Mian3 chi2] (the name of a place in Henan)

  11 strokes

• 渔yú🔊

  fisherman

  11 strokes

• 渕yuān🔊

  variant of 淵|渊[yuan1]

  11 strokes

• 渖shěn🔊

  old variant of 瀋|沈[shen3]

  11 strokes

• 渗shèn🔊

  to seep

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 渚zhǔ🔊

  islet

  11 strokes

• 渠qú🔊

  (artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL:條|条[tiao2])

  11 strokes

• 涡wō🔊

  eddy

  11 strokes

• 渮gē🔊

  place name

  11 strokes

• 渶Yīng🔊

  river in Shandong Province (old)

  11 strokes

• 湴bàn🔊

  mud

  11 strokes

• 汤tāng🔊

  soup

  HSK 3

  12 strokes

• 湿shī🔊

  variant of 濕|湿[shi1]

  HSK 4

  12 strokes

• 湖hú🔊

  lake

  HSK 2

  12 strokes

• 渡dù🔊

  to cross

  HSK 6

  12 strokes

• 滑huá🔊

  to slip; to slide

  HSK 5

  12 strokes

• 游yóu🔊

  to walk

  HSK 3

  12 strokes

• 渭Wèi🔊

  the Wei River in Shaanxi through the Guanzhong Plain 關中平原|关中平原[Guan1 zhong1 Ping2 yuan2]

  12 strokes

• 温wēn🔊

  warm; lukewarm

  12 strokes

• 港gǎng🔊

  harbor

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 湾wān🔊

  bay

  12 strokes

• 渣zhā🔊

  slag (in mining or smelting)

  12 strokes

• 渴kě🔊

  thirsty

  HSK 1

  12 strokes

• 凑còu🔊

  to gather together, pool or collect

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 减jiǎn🔊

  to lower

  HSK 4

  12 strokes

• 溅jiàn🔊

  to splash

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 湮yān🔊

  (literary) to sink into oblivion

  12 strokes

• 渥wò🔊

  to enrich

  12 strokes

• 测cè🔊

  to survey

  HSK 4

  12 strokes

• 溃kuì🔊

  (bound form) (of floodwaters) to break through a dam or dike

  12 strokes

• 渤Bó🔊

  same as 渤海[Bo2 Hai3], Bohai Sea between Liaoning and Shandong

  12 strokes

• 湘Xiāng🔊

  abbr. for Hunan 湖南 province in south central China

  12 strokes

• 浑hún🔊

  muddy; turbid

  12 strokes

• 渝yú🔊

  (literary) (of faith, affection etc) to change; to waver (usu. in 不渝[bu4 yu2])

  12 strokes

• 淼miǎo🔊

  a flood

  12 strokes

• 涣huàn🔊

  to dissipate

  12 strokes

• 渟tíng🔊

  stagnant water

  12 strokes

• 沨fēng🔊

  (onom.) sound of flowing water

  12 strokes