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.

• 浚jùn🔊

  to dredge (a river)

  10 strokes

• 浜bāng🔊

  stream

  10 strokes

• 浞zhuó🔊

  (coll.) to drench

  10 strokes

• 浠Xī🔊

  name of a river in Hubei

  10 strokes

• 浡bó🔊

  full

  10 strokes

• 浣huàn🔊

  to wash

  10 strokes

• 浤hóng🔊

  sound of water surging

  10 strokes

• 浥yì🔊

  damp

  10 strokes

• 浬lǐ🔊

  nautical mile

  10 strokes

• 浭Gēng🔊

  name of a river in Hebei

  10 strokes

• 浯Wú🔊

  (name of several rivers in China)

  10 strokes

• 浰lì🔊

  to attend (official functions)

  10 strokes

• 浲féng🔊

  old variant of 漨[feng2]

  10 strokes

• 浼měi🔊

  to ask a favor of

  10 strokes

• 浽suī🔊

  see 浽溦[sui1 wei1]

  10 strokes

• 涄pīng🔊

  (literary) runny; watery; fluid

  10 strokes

• 涉shè🔊

  (literary) to wade across a body of water

  10 strokes

• 涊niǎn🔊

  muddy water

  10 strokes

• 涐É🔊

  old name for the Dadu River 大渡河[Da4 du4 He2] in Sichuan

  10 strokes

• 涑sù🔊

  name of a river

  10 strokes

• 涒tūn🔊

  planet Jupiter

  10 strokes

• 涓juān🔊

  brook

  10 strokes

• 涔cén🔊

  overflow

  10 strokes

• 涕tì🔊

  tears

  10 strokes

• 涘sì🔊

  river bank

  10 strokes

• 涛tāo🔊

  big wave

  10 strokes

• 涝lào🔊

  flooded

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 涞lái🔊

  brook

  10 strokes

• 涟lián🔊

  ripple

  10 strokes

• 涠wéi🔊

  still water

  10 strokes

• 涡wō🔊

  eddy

  10 strokes

• 涢Yún🔊

  (name of a river in Hebei)

  10 strokes

• 涣huàn🔊

  to dissipate

  10 strokes

• 涤dí🔊

  to wash

  10 strokes

• 涧jiàn🔊

  variant of 澗|涧[jian4]

  10 strokes

• 淓Fāng🔊

  name of a river

  10 strokes