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.

• 沪Hù🔊

  short name for Shanghai

  7 strokes

• 泐lè🔊

  to write

  7 strokes

• 泛fàn🔊

  variant of 泛[fan4]

  7 strokes

• 泲jǐ🔊

  clear wine

  7 strokes

• 𣲗wéi🔊

  to flow back (of water)

  7 strokes

• 𣲘wǔ🔊

  river in Henan

  7 strokes

• 法fǎ🔊

  old variant of 法[fa3]

  HSK 4

  8 strokes

• 泡pào🔊

  bubble; foam

  HSK 6

  8 strokes

• 波bō🔊

  wave

  8 strokes

• 油yóu🔊

  oil

  HSK 2

  8 strokes

• 河hé🔊

  river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4])

  HSK 2

  8 strokes

• 注zhù🔊

  (bound form) to pour into; to flow into; to inject

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 沾zhān🔊

  variant of 沾[zhan1]

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 治zhì🔊

  to rule

  HSK 4

  8 strokes

• 泥ní🔊

  mud

  HSK 6

  8 strokes

• 泊pō🔊

  lake

  8 strokes

• 浅qiǎn🔊

  shallow

  HSK 4

  8 strokes

• 沿yán🔊

  along

  HSK 6

  8 strokes

• 泽zé🔊

  pool

  8 strokes

• 泼pō🔊

  to splash

  HSK 5

  8 strokes

• 沮jǔ🔊

  to destroy

  8 strokes

• 泣qì🔊

  to sob

  8 strokes

• 泪lèi🔊

  (bound form) tears; teardrops

  HSK 4

  8 strokes

• 沽gū🔊

  to buy

  8 strokes

• 泭fū🔊

  a raft

  8 strokes

• 沼zhǎo🔊

  pond

  8 strokes

• 沸fèi🔊

  to boil

  8 strokes

• 泄xiè🔊

  variant of 洩|泄[xie4]

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 沫mò🔊

  foam

  8 strokes

• 沓dá🔊

  classifier for sheets of papers etc: pile, pad

  8 strokes

• 沬mèi🔊

  dawn

  8 strokes

• 沭shù🔊

  river in Shandong

  8 strokes

• 沰tuō🔊

  to let drop

  8 strokes

• 沱tuó🔊

  tearful

  8 strokes

• 沴lì🔊

  miasma

  8 strokes

• 沷fā🔊

  to remove evil

  8 strokes

• 沺tián🔊

  turbulent

  8 strokes

• 况kuàng🔊

  moreover

  8 strokes

• 泂jiǒng🔊

  vast

  8 strokes

• 泃Jū🔊

  (the name of a river to the east of Beijing)

  8 strokes

• 泅qiú🔊

  to swim (bound form)

  8 strokes

• 泆yì🔊

  licentious, libertine, dissipate

  8 strokes

• 泇Jiā🔊

  the name of a river that flows through Shandong and Jiangsu

  8 strokes

• 泈Zhōng🔊

  old variant of 汷[Zhong1]

  8 strokes

• 泌mì🔊

  (bound form) to secrete

  8 strokes

• 泑yǒu🔊

  the vitreous glaze on china, porcelain etc

  8 strokes

• 泒gū🔊

  name of a river

  8 strokes

• 泓hóng🔊

  clear

  8 strokes