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.

• 凑còu🔊

  to gather together, pool or collect

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 减jiǎn🔊

  to lower

  HSK 4

  12 strokes

• 溅jiàn🔊

  to splash

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 湮yān🔊

  (literary) to sink into oblivion

  12 strokes

• 渥wò🔊

  to enrich

  12 strokes

• 溃kuì🔊

  (bound form) (of floodwaters) to break through a dam or dike

  12 strokes

• 渤Bó🔊

  same as 渤海[Bo2 Hai3], Bohai Sea between Liaoning and Shandong

  12 strokes

• 湘Xiāng🔊

  abbr. for Hunan 湖南 province in south central China

  12 strokes

• 渝yú🔊

  (literary) (of faith, affection etc) to change; to waver (usu. in 不渝[bu4 yu2])

  12 strokes

• 淼miǎo🔊

  a flood

  12 strokes

• 渟tíng🔊

  stagnant water

  12 strokes

• 渧dì🔊

  to drop, as liquids

  12 strokes

• 渨wēi🔊

  cove

  12 strokes

• 渫xiè🔊

  to get rid of

  12 strokes

• 渰yǎn🔊

  (of cloud) forming or rising

  12 strokes

• 渲xuàn🔊

  wash (color)

  12 strokes

• 渺miǎo🔊

  (of an expanse of water) vast

  12 strokes

• 渼měi🔊

  ripple pattern

  12 strokes

• 湃pài🔊

  used in 澎湃[peng2 pai4]

  12 strokes

• 湄méi🔊

  (literary) shore; coast; bank

  12 strokes

• 湅liàn🔊

  to boil raw silk (to soften and clean it)

  12 strokes

• 湉tián🔊

  (literary) smoothly flowing, placid (water)

  12 strokes

• 湌cān🔊

  variant of 餐[can1]

  12 strokes

• 湍tuān🔊

  to rush (of water)

  12 strokes

• 湎miǎn🔊

  drunk

  12 strokes

• 湑xǔ🔊

  abundant

  12 strokes

• 湓pén🔊

  flowing of water

  12 strokes

• 湔jiān🔊

  to wash

  12 strokes

• 湛zhàn🔊

  deep

  12 strokes

• 湜shí🔊

  clear water

  12 strokes

• 湝jiē🔊

  flowing (of water)

  12 strokes

• 湟huáng🔊

  name of a river

  12 strokes

• 湢bì🔊

  public bathhouse

  12 strokes

• 湣mǐn🔊

  (ancient character used in posthumous titles of monarchs)

  12 strokes

• 湩dòng🔊

  milk

  12 strokes

• 湫jiǎo🔊

  marsh

  12 strokes

• 湱huò🔊

  dashing of waves

  12 strokes

• 湲yuán🔊

  rushing (water)

  12 strokes

• 湳nǎn🔊

  (used in place names)

  12 strokes

• 溁yíng🔊

  (archaic) (of water) to swirl; to eddy

  12 strokes

• 溆xù🔊

  name of a river

  12 strokes

• 溇Lóu🔊

  see 漊水|溇水[Lou2 Shui3]

  12 strokes

• 溉gài🔊

  to irrigate

  12 strokes

• 溠zhà🔊

  name of a river

  12 strokes

• 溲sōu🔊

  to urinate

  12 strokes

• 溾wēi🔊

  light rain

  12 strokes

• 滁Chú🔊

  name of a river in Anhui

  12 strokes

• 滋zī🔊

  to grow

  12 strokes