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.

• 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

• 混hùn🔊

  to mix

  HSK 6

  11 strokes

• 深shēn🔊

  (lit. and fig.) deep

  HSK 3

  11 strokes

• 清qīng🔊

  (of water etc) clear; clean

  HSK 6

  11 strokes

• 涴wò🔊

  to soil

  11 strokes

• 凉liáng🔊

  cool

  HSK 2

  11 strokes

• 添tiān🔊

  to add; to increase; to replenish

  HSK 6

  11 strokes

• 淩líng🔊

  variant of 凌[ling2]

  11 strokes

• 淮Huái🔊

  name of a river

  11 strokes

• 淑shū🔊

  (bound form) (of women) gentle; kind; lovely; admirable

  11 strokes

• 淡dàn🔊

  insipid

  HSK 4

  11 strokes

• 液yè🔊

  (bound form) a liquid

  11 strokes

• 淫yín🔊

  excess

  11 strokes

• 淏hào🔊

  (literary) (of water) limpid

  11 strokes

• 淝féi🔊

  name of a river

  11 strokes

• 淋lín🔊

  to sprinkle

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 淌tǎng🔊

  to drip

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 淸qīng🔊

  variant of 清[qing1]

  11 strokes

• 淹yān🔊

  to flood

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 淘táo🔊

  to wash (rice, sand etc in water to remove impurities)

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 㴋xiāo🔊

  sound of rain and wind

  11 strokes

• 涪Fú🔊

  (name of a river)

  11 strokes

• 涫guàn🔊

  (classical) to boil

  11 strokes

• 涬xìng🔊

  watery expanse

  11 strokes

• 涮shuàn🔊

  to rinse; to swish (in water)

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 涯yá🔊

  border

  11 strokes

• 涵hán🔊

  to contain

  11 strokes

• 涶tuò🔊

  variant of 唾[tuo4]

  11 strokes