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.

• 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

• 泔gān🔊

  slop from rinsing rice

  8 strokes

• 泖mǎo🔊

  still water

  8 strokes

• 泗sì🔊

  nasal mucus

  8 strokes

• 泙píng🔊

  sound of water splashing

  8 strokes

• 泜zhī🔊

  a river in Hebei province

  8 strokes

• 泝sù🔊

  variant of 溯[su4]

  8 strokes

• 泞nìng🔊

  muddy

  8 strokes

• 泠líng🔊

  sound of water flowing

  8 strokes

• 泩shēng🔊

  rising of water

  8 strokes

• 泫xuàn🔊

  weep

  8 strokes

• 泮pàn🔊

  (literary) to melt

  8 strokes

• 泯mǐn🔊

  (bound form) to vanish; to die out; to obliterate

  8 strokes

• 泱yāng🔊

  agitated (wind, cloud)

  8 strokes

• 泳yǒng🔊

  swimming

  8 strokes

• 泷lóng🔊

  rapids

  8 strokes