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.

• 灭miè🔊

  to extinguish or put out

  HSK 6

  13 strokes

• 源yuán🔊

  root

  13 strokes

• 滇Diān🔊

  short name for Yunnan 雲南|云南[Yun2 nan2]

  13 strokes

• 沧cāng🔊

  (bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green

  13 strokes

• 沟gōu🔊

  ditch

  HSK 5

  13 strokes

• 溪xī🔊

  creek

  13 strokes

• 滩tān🔊

  beach

  13 strokes

• 溢yì🔊

  to overflow

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 溶róng🔊

  to dissolve

  13 strokes

• 溱zhēn🔊

  name of a river

  13 strokes

• 溍jìn🔊

  water

  13 strokes

• 溎guì🔊

  name of a river

  13 strokes

• 溏táng🔊

  half congealed

  13 strokes

• 溘kè🔊

  suddenly

  13 strokes

• 溛wā🔊

  to form hollow

  13 strokes

• 溟míng🔊

  to drizzle

  13 strokes

• 溥pǔ🔊

  extensive

  13 strokes

• 溦wēi🔊

  drizzle

  13 strokes

• 溧lì🔊

  name of a river

  13 strokes

• 浉Shī🔊

  Shi, name of river in Xinyang 信陽|信阳, Henan

  13 strokes

• 溯sù🔊

  variant of 溯[su4]

  13 strokes

• 涢Yún🔊

  (name of a river in Hebei)

  13 strokes

• 溴xiù🔊

  bromine (chemistry)

  13 strokes

• 溵Yīn🔊

  used in place-names, e.g. 溵水 was once the name of the Shahe River 沙河, Henan, and 溵州 was a Tang Dynasty prefecture

  13 strokes

• 溷hùn🔊

  privy

  13 strokes

• 溺nì🔊

  to drown

  13 strokes

• 溻tā🔊

  (of clothes) to be soaked with sweat

  13 strokes

• 溽rù🔊

  damp

  13 strokes

• 滂pāng🔊

  rushing (water)

  13 strokes

• 滃wěng🔊

  (of clouds) to rise

  13 strokes

• 滉huǎng🔊

  bright expanse of water

  13 strokes

• 滊xì🔊

  name of a river

  13 strokes

• 涤dí🔊

  to wash

  13 strokes

• 滍zhì🔊

  (used in place names)

  13 strokes

• 滏fǔ🔊

  name of a river in Hebei

  13 strokes

• 滓zǐ🔊

  (bound form) dregs; sediment

  13 strokes

• 滔tāo🔊

  (bound form) to inundate; deluge; torrent

  13 strokes

• 滗bì🔊

  to pour off (the liquid); to decant; to strain off

  13 strokes

• 滘jiào🔊

  place name in Guangdong

  13 strokes

• 滟yàn🔊

  tossing of billows

  13 strokes

• 滠shè🔊

  name of a river

  13 strokes

• 滢yíng🔊

  clear

  13 strokes

• 滤lǜ🔊

  to strain

  13 strokes

• 滥làn🔊

  overflowing

  13 strokes

• 滦Luán🔊

  river and county in Hebei Province

  13 strokes

• 滧yáo🔊

  (dialect) natural branching stream

  13 strokes

• 滨bīn🔊

  (bound form) water's edge; bank; shore

  13 strokes

• 滪Yù🔊

  (place name in Sichuan)

  13 strokes