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没 |
to submerge, die, not, have not, to end
Left: water 氵, right: 殳 (battle axe  in a hand 又) In the water the one with the battle axe in his hand will: submerge. |
水 |
water, liquid
(When used as radical: 氵 = Drops of water) 水 is similar to river 川. |
汉 |
man, Han ethnic group, Chinese (language)
Left: water 氵, right: (once)again 又 (image of a hand) - In the Han dynasty there was an economic boom due to the waterways (= 氵) and hardworking hands 又 Water(-ways) and hands for the success of the Han Dynasty. |
漂 |
to float, to drift, to bleach, elegant
Left: water 氵, right: ticket 票 (In the west 覀/西 you show 示 your ticket.) [West: 西 = Below the horizon 一 the sun 日 sinks 儿 at the sunset in the west] On the water is a ticket and it is floating. |
游 |
to travel, to swim, to tour, to roam, to walk
left: water 氵, right: variation of travel 旅 (direction 方, banner/flag  and child 子) To the water 氵 leads the trip 旅, with a child 子 [instead of clothes 衣], because is it a travel for swimming. |
汽 |
steam, vapor
Left: water 氵, right: steam 气 (image of uprising steam) Also water's steam is steam. |
洗 |
to wash, to bathe, laundry
Left: water 氵, right: precede, previous 先 (The cow 牛 uses the front legs 儿 to preceed.) (Perhaps later for the flowers? - But:) The water it is precedingly used for: washing. |
泳 |
swimming, to swim
Left: water 氵, right: forever, eternally 永 (I emphasise 丶water 水 has been forever.). Here: See the accent 丶 as a swimmer In the water, a person 丶 can be for forever 永 (= above the water level 一,水) when: swimming. |
河 |
river
Left: water 氵, right: possible 可 (The nail 丁 into the opening 口 should be possible) (i.e. for water transport) Water that makes things possible, is the river. |
法 |
law, method, way, Buddhist teaching
Left: water 氵, right: leave, go away 去 (Below ground 土 is the nose 厶, which has left.) The water must be left: That's the law! |
清 |
clear, pure, to clean up, purge
Left: water 氵, right: blue, young 青 (Growing plants  /丰 appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.) Water that is blue (or young) is clear and pure. |
酒 |
alcohol, wine, liquor
Left: water/liquid 氵, right: wine jar 酉 The liquid in the wine jar is alcohol. |
满 |
full, filled, packed, completely
Left: water 氵, right: grass/plants 艹, pair/both 两 (Two connected 一 persons 人 are inside 内, thus both.) Water and plants, both can make (your stomach) full. |
注 |
to pour into, to register, note, comment, to inject
Left: water 氵, right: master 主 (I emphasize 丶, the king 王 is the master.) Water for the master: note it and pour it in. |
渴 |
thirsty
Left: Water 氵, right: interrogation 曷 (The mouth with tongue 日 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner  at the interrogation.) cf. to drink 喝 He wants to drink water, because under the sun is a wrapped person, who is: thirsty. |
澡 |
bath
Left: water 氵, right: gather 喿 (variant of birds chirping/twittering 噪 from many mouths 口/品 in the tree 木) There at the water where you gather (also with gossips and twitter): In the baths. |
洋 |
ocean, foreign, vast
Left: water 氵, right: sheep 羊 (here: rippled wave like the wool of a sheep) The water can ripple like sheep's (wool) in the vast ocean over which the foreign came. |
落 |
to fall, to drop (behind), decline
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 洛 (water 氵and each 各 [= Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody]) Plants (their leaves) and water-(drops), they all fall down. |
沙 |
granule, sand, powder, hoarse, raspy
Left: water 氵, right: few, little 少 (A small 小 stroke ノ is too few) (In the past, water was never fully pure:) In the water is a little sand. |
温 |
warm, temperature
Left: water 氵, right: 昷 (sun 日 and a bowl/plate 皿) The water in the sunny bowl becomes warm. |
济 |
to cross a river, to aid or relieve, to be of help
Left: water 氵, right: be in the same level 齐 (A text 文 lays flatly on two vertical sticks 丿|, that are in the same level.) If the water is the same level (no eddies or rapids), you can easily cross the river. |
油 |
oil, fat, grease
Left: water 氵, right: reason 由 (The seedling 丨 on the field 田 has its reason) Water is with reason no oil. |
江 |
big river, stream
Left: water 氵, right: craftsman 工 (Many cities are located at this river) The 'water', where it is worked, is the: Yangtze (= 长江). |
流 |
to flow, to drift, to disseminate, to circulate
Left: water 氵, right: 㐬 ("newborn baby" as a child  turned upside down: the child 子 comes with head first, with amniotic fluid 川) Water as well as a newborn baby's amniotic fluid is flowing. |
染 |
to dye, catch (a disease), contaminate
Top: water 氵, nine 九, bottom: tree 木 You need water (= liquid) in 9 (colors, namely the 7 colors of the rainbow + black/white), obtained from trees, to dye with it. |
深 |
deep, profound, dark (of color)
Left: water 氵, right: 罙 (var. or hole 穴, tree 木) The water hole at the tree is deep. |
浪 |
(sea) wave, tides, unrestrained, dissipated
Left: water 氵, right: good 良 Only water makes good waves. |
污 |
dirty, filthy, foul, corrupt, to defile
Left: water 氵, right: deficiency 亏 (one 一, winding seaweed 丂) For the good water already one (single) seaweed (is enough) to make it dirty. |
漫 |
free, unrestrained, inundate, overflow by water
Left: water 氵, right: handsome 曼 (The sun 日 shines on eyes 罒 with long eyelashes 又) (It waters the fields:) The water is handsome, because it is: free in spreading and inundating! |
汗 |
sweat, perspiration
Left: water 氵, right: dry 干 (laundry rack) Water dries like sweat. |
汤 |
soup, hot or boiling water
Left: water 氵, right simplified from: easy 易 (This shows the warming sun 日 with its shine 勿.) "Water" is warmed by the sunshine and turns into: a soup. |
消 |
to disappear, to vanish, to eliminate
Left: water 氵, right: alike/resemble sb. 肖 (Small 小 bodies 月 are alike.) (It evaporates!) Water or alikes can disappear. |
洲 |
island, continent
Left: Water 氵, right: prefecture 州 (Sandbanks 丶 in the river 川 separate the prefectures.) When there is a lot of water at the sandbanks in the river, the prefecture turns into: an island. |
海 |
ocean, sea
Left: water 氵, right: every 每 (every person 人 =  has a mother 母) [母 = woman 女 with emphasized swollen breasts : when breastfeeding] Water is in every ocean. |
激 |
violent, to arouse, to excite, fierce
Left: water 氵, right: : 敫 (white 白, rest: let go/release 放 [In his side 方 he was striked 攵 until he released] - cf.敫 (At a storm) If the water has white (foam crests) and is released: That'll be violent. |
演 |
to perform, to play, to act, to evolve
Left: water 氵, right: 寅 (roof/house 宀, one 一, field 田, eight 八) The water in the house at the single field is part of the eight perfomances. |
活 |
to live, alive, workmanship
Left: water 氵, right: tongue 舌 (Thousand 千 mouths 口 with tongues) Water on the tongue gives life and vigor. |
泼 |
to splash, to spill, rough and coarse, brutish
Left: water 氵, right: to send out 发 (The mountain 山 was drawn by the hand 又 untidy, but (the letter) needs to be sent out.) When water is 'sent out' it is splashed. |
汁 |
juice, gravy, sauce
Left: water 氵, right: ten 十 (simplified from 录 - cf. green 绿 where plant fibers 纟 are pressed by hand 彐 and green liquid 水 drips down.) The water that drops down from the pressing hand is: juice. |
汇 |
to converge (of rivers), collection, remit
Left: water 氵, right: embracement 匚 The water is embraced and collected in the confluence. |
测 |
to measure, to survey, observe, probe, conjecture, to monitor
Left: water 氵, right: standard, rule 则 (Money 贝 is cut/shared 刂 by rules.) (Distribution to different fields) For the water we have rules to measure and monitor it. |
渐 |
gradually, imbue
Left: water 氵, right: to chop 斩 (For the vehicle 车/車, use an axe 斤 to chop it) ("Constant dripping wears the stone") Water can "chop", but only gradually. [Or due to rost: Water (damages) vehicles and axes: Gradually and little by little] |
范 |
casting mold, pattern, model, example
Here: image of the casting mold with casting channels 艹, casting material 氵 and casting model 㔾 Through the casting channels the molten material flows in the model of the casting mold. |
泪 |
tears
Left: water 氵, right: eye 目 The water in the eye are the tears. |
淡 |
weak, mild, tasteless, diluted, nitrogen
Left: water 氵, right: flames 炎 (2x fire 火) Water makes the flames: weak and mild. |
潮 |
tide, current, damp, moist
Left: water 氵, right: dynasty, government 朝 Here: a lake 湖, having the part old: 古 once normal and upside-down to express changing directions Like a lake 湖 with changing directions are the seawater's tides. |
派 |
school of thought, fraction, sect, pi=π=3.14
Left: water 氵, right: affluents (branches of water 水) Branched like the water of affluents are the schools of thought or fractions. |
泛 |
to float, non-specific, general, extensive, inundate
Left: water 氵, right: short of, lack 乏 (person 人 and 'Z' [A person going zick-zack is lacking sth.]) In the water it's lacking (i.e. the direction): it is floating. |
润 |
smooth, lubricate, moist
Left: water 氵, right: 闰 (gate 门/門 and king 王) With water the gate of the king became smooth and lubricated. |
治 |
to heal/cure, to rule, to control, government
Left: water 氵/水 (here: spring), right: platform 台 (The nose 厶 over the mouth 口 is like a platform) The spring's water on the platform is healing and controlled by the government. |
滑 |
slippery, smooth, comical, cunning
Left: water 氵, right: skeleton, bones 骨 (from top: bone [pictograph of a vertebra], cover 冖, body/flesh 月) Water on the bones makes them smooth. |
沉 |
to sink, to submerge, to immerse, to keep down
Left: water 氵, right: superfluous 冗 (A tablecloth 冖 on the table 几 is superfluous.) In the water, the waste (= that what is superfluous) will sink. |
滚 |
to boil (liquid), to roll, tumble
Left: water 氵, right: 衮 (six 六, nose 厶, clothes 衣) In the water are six noses and clothes that are boiling. |
浓 |
concentrated, dense
Left: water 氵, right: peasant 农 (He wears a cover 冖 at the clothes 衣 [because he needs to go out in all weathers]) With the water, the peasant works concentrated and it grows densely. |
沟 |
ditch, gutter, groove, gully, ravine
Left: water 氵, right: hook, sketch 勾 (two hooks 勹, 厶 in engagement) Water "hooks in" (= aggregates) in the ditch. |
洞 |
cave, hole, cavity, cavern, empty
Left: water 氵, right: same 同 (Here: see 同 as view into a mining tunnel ロ with beams 一 supporting the walls and ceiling) A wet mining tunnel is a cave. |
池 |
lake, pond, reservoir, moat
Left: water 氵, right: a bent creature 也 (i.e. snake, scorpion) A "water" with snake-like creatures is the: lake. |
浅 |
shallow (water), light (color)
Left: water 氵, right: two 二 and halberd 戈 Water covering only two halberds is too shallow. |
涂 |
to apply (salve, paint), to smear, to daub, scribble
Left: water 氵(here: liquid), right: excess/rest 余 (A heap  on the altar 示 shows, that sth is in excess.) If liquid is in excess, we can apply it like a salve/ointment. |
湿 |
moist, wet
Left: water 氵, right: visible 显 (If the sun 日 is [directly] over a hollow volcanic vent 业, it is visible there) Water makes a sunny hole (=vent) wet. Or: Water is visible, when (i.e. the floor) is wet. |
漠 |
desert, unconcerned, indifferent, apathetic
Left: water 氵, right: negative 莫 (sink, go down: The sun 日 is setting between plants 艹, 艹= 大) [sunrise is: 旦 or  ] (Low groundwater level) When the water has sunk, it turns into: a desert. |
涨 |
to rise (prices, rivers), to swell, distend
Left: water 氵, right: stretch 张 (The bow 弓 is long 长/長 and stretched.) Wenn the water 'stretches' it rises. |
滴 |
a drop, to drip
Left: water 氵, right: old emperor (mix of emperor 帝 and old 古) (Due to problems with the prostate gland) Passing 'water', can the old emperor only drop by drop. |
漏 |
to leak, to divulge, to leave out by mistake, funnel
Left: water 氵, right: buttocks from the side 尸 and rain 雨 The water on the buttocks is rain but it 'leaks' down. |
滩 |
coast, beach, shoal
Left: water 氵, right: difficult 难 (By hand 又 to catch a bird 隹 is difficult.) (There is only salt water at the coast) The water is difficult (to use) if it is from the coast. |
洒 |
to sprinkle, to spray, to spill, to shed
Left: water 氵, right: west 西 (Below the horizon 一 the sun 日 sinks 儿 at the sunset in the west, but here: variant of rain 雨) Water as 'rain' means to sprinkle. |
源 |
source, origin (of a river), reason
Left: water 氵, right: origin, source 原 (At the cliff 厂, the "small spring" [spring 泉 & small 小] has its origin.) The water has its origin at the: origin/spring. |
淘 |
to wash, clean out, cleanse, eliminate, dredge
Left: water 氵, right: package 匋 (wrap 勹, can 缶 [lid  and can opener 十 of that can 凵 ]) Use Water, because before enwrapping, the can shall be washed. |
浏 |
clear, deep (of water), swift, to skim over / to browse
Left: water 氵, right: 刘 (script, cultur 文 [Image of a folding table for writing a text], knife 刂 [here: two pages]) Like "through the water" you read scripts (2 pages each), when skimming over. |
浇 |
to pour liquid, to irrigate/water, to cast (metal)
Left: Water 氵, right: Emperor Tang Yao 尧 (vari. of halberd 戈, variant of table A water splash (strong like) a halberd on the table: it was poured. |
烫 |
hot, to burn, to scald, to iron
Top: soup 汤 (Water 氵 is made by warming sunshine 易 into: a soup.), bottom: fire 火 The soup from the fire is: hot and you will burn. |
波 |
wave, ripple, storm, surge
Left: water 氵; right: skin 皮 (Shows the skin 厂 of an animal with a hand 又, that cuts of the skin with a knife 丨) The water (of the ocean) has a skin and this are the waves. |
混 |
mingle, to mix, confused, reckless, muddy
Left: water 氵, right: elder brother, insect 昆 (originally: insect with carapace 日 and legs 比) (In the past there was no clean water?) Water and insects are mingled / mixed. |
渔 |
fishing, to fish, fisherman
Left: water 氵, right: fish 鱼/魚 (.. with mouth ⺈, body 田 and tail fin 灬) Water with fish stands for fishing. |
沃 |
fertile, to irrigate, rich
Left: water 氵, right: early death 夭 (here: sky/heaven 天) Water from heaven brings fertility. |
液 |
liquid, fluid
Left: water 氵, right: night 夜 (On the roof 亠 is a person 亻/人 watching the moon 月 during the night.) Water in the night remains liquid. |
添 |
to add, to increase, to replenish
Top: fertility 沃 (with water 氵from sky, heaven 天), lower right: heart 心 (children are born) With fertility in the heart we will add some. |
浮 |
to float, unstable, superficial, excessive
Left: water 氵, right: trust 孚 (To the hand reaching down 爫, the child 子 is trusting.) Into the water, a hand reaches down to a child that is floating. |
溃 |
be dispersed, break down, to fester/ulcerate
Left: water 氵, right: precious, expensive 贵 (A blooming flower [simplf. from 堇] and money 贝 are precious) Even water, which is that precious is dispersing (=evaporating) AND: Water is precious with: an ulcer/abscess. |
溜 |
to slip away, slide, to skate
Left: water 氵, right: remain 留 (The bent person  with the sword 刀 shall on the field 田 to remain) On the water that is remaining, you can slip away. |
滋 |
to nourish, grow, increase, to suscite, taste
Left: water 氵, right: now, here 兹 (2x mysterious 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where a upper bracket 艹 holds threads 玄 with hanging stones 石 that are mysterious) Water is doubly mysterious: It nourishes and lets things grow. |
茫 |
uncertain, vast, without clear boundary, hazy
Top: grass 艹, bottom: 汒 (water 氵, dead 亡 [coffin in cross section]) Either the grass (smoking) or the water will let us die, which is uncertain. |
泥 |
mud, clay, paste, pulp
Left: water 氵, right: nun 尼 (buttock from the side 尸, sitting person 匕) The water, in which the nun is sitting, is muddy. |
泽 |
moist, wet, lustre (of metals etc), pond, favor
Left: water 氵, right: vertical 圣 (A hand 又 vertically over ground 土) (The water can not run off) The water keeps it (when the ground is arranged to the vertical) moist and with lustre. |
浑 |
muddy, unclear, stupid
Left: water 氵, right: army, military 军 (.. with covered 冖 camouflaged vehicles 车/車) The water is (after an army has passed through) muddy and unclear. |
泡 |
foam, blister, swollen, spongy
Left: water 氵, right: wrap 包 (=self 己 wrapped 勹) Water, that 'enwraps', is: foam. |
泄 |
to leak (water, gas, secrets), to drip, drain, disperse
Left: water 氵, right: epoch, lifetime 世 (A dripping faucet/tap?) The water has for ages been leaking. |
洁 |
clean, to purify
Left: water 氵, right: happy 吉 (simplific. of 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in the mouth 口 and is happy.) The water makes you happy, if it is clean. |
泊 |
to anchor, touch at, to moor
Left: water 氵, right: white 白 (The shine ノ of the sun 日 makes it white) Where the water is white (= clean) we shall anchor. |
沿 |
along, following (a line)
Left: water 氵, right: var. of valley 谷 (pictograph of a valley opening towards a plain) The water in the valley: flows along. (that you can have your bath 浴) |
涛 |
big wave, breaker (wave)
Left: water 氵, right: long life 寿 (two skillful hands 手 & 寸 are needed for Sushi 寿司 and you will have a long life) Water that has a long life, are the: big breaker waves. |
灌 |
to irrigate, to pour
Left: water 氵, right: stork 雚 (Between plants 艹 in two ponds ロロ - This bird 隹 is the stork) Give water to the plants at the ponds (supporting the storks) by irrigation. |
湖 |
lake
Left: Water 氵, right: beard, non-Han-person 胡 (Like old 古 flesh 月 are the beards of the non-Han people) Water and the old moon can be seen in the lake. |
湾 |
bay, gulf, to cast anchor
Left: water 氵, right: to bend 弯 ([The head] becomes reddish 亦/赤, when you are like a bow 弓 when stooping. Water is reddish in that 'bow', which is: a bay. |
淋 |
to water sth., to sprinkle, drench, to drip
Left: water 氵, right: forest 林 With water you'll get a (whole) forest, if you water it. |
溪 |
rivulet =small river, creek
Left: water 氵, right: What? WHERE? 奚 (The down-reaching hand 爫 wants to fish with the thread 糸 something big 大, but: What? Where?) To get to the water, you need to reach down and it seems like a 'big thread', then it is a rivulet. |
洪 |
flood, big, great
Left: water氵, right: together 共 (Put the plants 艹 on the table  together.) The waters together make a flood. |
津 |
a ferry crossing, port, saliva
Left: water 氵, right: to write 聿 (Here: Hand  with stick 丨 poking into the water 二 to measure the depth) In water, use a stick to measure depth of water at the ferry crossing. |
溶 |
to melt, to dissolve, soluble
Left: water 氵, right: appearance 容 (The roofs 宀 in the valley 谷 are an appearance.) Water comes from the roof into the valley, because it is melting. |
滥 |
overflowing, excessive, indiscriminate
Left: water 氵, right: supervise 监 (For the cut bamboo 监 [=knife刂 & half bamboo 竹] is a bowl 皿 for its supervision) The water must be supervised because of the overflowings. |
浴 |
bath, to bathe
Left: water 氵, right: valley 谷 (image of a valley opening to the plain 口) The water flows into the valley, where you can have your bath. |
漆 |
lacquer, paint, varnish
Left: water 氵, right: 桼 (tree 木, person 人, drip (var. of water 水) From the water/sap of the tree, the person makes drips of lacquer. |
滞 |
inhibit, block, sluggish
Left: water 氵, right: belt 带 (A belt 一 in 3 positions as a cover 冖 for the cloth 巾) (To build a pond with a dam/dike) The water within the 'belt' is inhibited & sluggish. |
渠 |
ditch, drain, stream or canal
Top: water 氵 and: huge 巨 (= staring eye), bottom: tree 木 The water came in huge volumes (and flowed) at the tree into the: ditch. |
涵 |
to contain, to include, culvert
Left: water 氵, right: envelope 函 (container 凵, e.g. jug 乛, water 水) Water is poured from a jug into the container, which then contains it. |
浸 |
to immerse, to soak, to steep, gradually
Left: water 氵, right: var. of a hand  holding a broom 帚 The water in the broom gets soaked up. |
潜 |
to submerge, to dive, hidden, secret, to conceal
Left: water 氵, right: exchange/substitute 替 (The two husbands 夫 are during sunshine 日 (=good times) exchangeable.) [If you can't see] in the water the two husbands in the sun, they are submerged or hiding. |
港 |
harbor, port
Left: water 氵, right: 巷 (together 共, oneself 己) [共 = Put the plants 艹 on the table  together.] [己 = Following the winding path I find myself.] From the waters for reaching the "together" you yourself need to go to: the harbor. |
涌 |
surge up, to bubble up, to rush forth, spill
Left: water 氵, right: 甬 (bent person マ, use/usage 用 [a fence 用 can be used]) Water can bend マ or (overflood) the fence, if it surges up. |
沾 |
to moisten, to be infected by, to receive favors
Left: water 氵, right: fortune-telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told) If you use water for forturne telling, you need to moisten sth. |
衍 |
to overflow, to amplify, to spread out, to develop
Outside: to walk 行, middle: water 氵 The water "goes" when it is overflowing. |
泣 |
to cry, to weep, to sob
Left: water 氵, right: stand 立 In the water he is standing and cries. |
滨 |
coast, beach, shore, bank, to border on
Left: water 氵, right: visitor, guest 宾 (Under your roof 宀 a soldier 兵 is [billeted] as your guest.) You have water as your "guest", if you (= your premises) is located at: a coast. |
沼 |
pond, pool
Left: water 氵, right: to call together 召 (... with the sword 刀 and the mouth 口) (A pond nearby for the daily water supply) The water that is called together (to clean the sword and mouth) comes from a pond. |
沫 |
foam, suds
Left: water 氵, right: end 末 (The top branch 一 of the tree 木 marks the end.) The water that is at the upper outer ends (of a container) is: foam. |
渗 |
to seep, infiltrate, permeate, to horrify
Left: water 氵, right: participate 参 (a nose 厶 that big 大 and hairy 彡, there I participate.) If water participates, it seeped in. |
阔 |
rich, wide, vast, broad, expansive
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: life, activity 活 (= water 氵on the tongue 舌) When I leave out of the gate, I get activity in a rich vast way. |
淹 |
to flood, to submerge, to drown, delay
Left: water 氵, right: suddenly 奄 (i.e lightning stroke: The big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly.) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning arrester 乚] If the water comes suddenly, then as a flood, where you drown. |
泌 |
seep out, pour off, secrete
Left: water 氵, right: certainly 必 (The heart 心 is pierced by a lance ノ - certainly!) The water will certainly seep out. |
沸 |
to boil, bubbling up
Left: water 氵, right: flow heater (not etymological: heater coil 弓 and pipes || streamed through) Water in the boiler is boiling. |
涉 |
to wade (trough a river), to be involved, experience
Left: water 氵, right: walk, pace 步 (Stop 止 a little 少 when: walking.) (The combination of:) "Water and to walk" means: to wade through a water. |
泻 |
diarrhea, to flow out swiftly, a torrent
Left: water 氵, right: to write 写 (Here: under a cover 冖 somebody '5' sits on a toilet 一)(cf. horse 马) Like water it comes, at the toilet, when you have diarrhea. |
汹 |
to surge up violently, tumultuous, turbulent
Left: water 氵, right: fearful 凶 (The mark 㐅 on the container 凵 shows that its content is vicious and fearful.) Water that is fearful, surges up violently. |
澄 |
clear, limpid, to purify, settle (liquid)
Left: water 氵, right: climb, ascend 登 (The volcano 癶 spits beans 豆: let's ascend it.) (In dirty water, the dirt settles down, the clear part rises up:) When water is climbing, it becomes clear. |
滔 |
overflow, inundate, torrent-dash
Left: water 氵, right: 舀 (hand reaching down 爫, mortar 臼) The water will do this, when a hand reaches down into a mortar (filled up to the brim): overflow. |
渡 |
to cross, to pass through, to ferry
Left: water 氵, right: degree, extent 度 (In the house 广 is an object 廿 with which the hand 又 measures x-times the degrees.) Such waters can, up to a certain extent, be crossed. |
涩 |
tart, acerbity, unsmooth, rough(surface), obscure
Left: water 氵, right: blade of a knife 刃 (here: drop 丶), stop 止 (imprint of right foot) (Rost formation?) The drop of water that stopped (= remained) on the knife was tart (acid) and left a roughness. |
沮 |
destroy, dispirited, to stop
Left: water 氵, right: further/moreover 且 ("stone cairn" = A pile of stones where stones are moreover added.) If the water (= the flood) is high as the piled stones, it destroys and we are dispirited. |
溅 |
splash, spatter, spill
Left: water 氵, right: inexpensive 贱 (If you only have money 贝 for two halberds 戋, you live inexpensive) The water is such inexpensive, that you can splash it. |
渺 |
distant and indistinct, vast, tiny (due to distance)
Left: water 氵, right: 眇 (variation of economize 省 Only few 少 eyes 目 see, how you economize) The water should be economized, if you are still far distant. |
汰 |
to wash out, discard, to eliminate
Left: water 氵, right: extreme, highest 太 (Here: big 大 and element 丶) (At the gold panning?) Using water the big elements can be washed out. |
浊 |
impure, turbid, muddy
Left: water 氵, right: insect 虫 Water with insects is impure. |
涕 |
snivel, nasal mucus, tears
Left: water 氵, right: younger brother 弟 (A feathered 丷arrow λ from the bow 弓 of my younger brother) The "water" of your younger brother is his snivel. |
沧 |
blue-green or azure (water), vast (ocean)
Left: water 氵, right: warehouse 仓 (Under the pointed roof 人 is a roll of cloth 㔾 in the warehouse) The water at the warehouse was blue-green. |
沛 |
abundant, copious
Left: water 氵, right: variant of city 市 (You will get covers 亠 and cloth 巾 in the city on the market.) (If there is enough) water, the city will flourish: abundantly. |
洽 |
accord, to agree, to make contact, in harmony
Left: water 氵, right: to fit 合 (The lid  on the pot 口) (The water amount for watering/irrigating the fields:) If the water is fitting, then it was agreed on in an accord. |
濒 |
to be close to, near, to approach
Left: water 氵, right: frequently, often 频 (to go 步, side, head 页/頁 [head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrow 一]) The water goes (up to) your head and is thus (really) close to you. |
淀 |
sediment, deposits, precipitate
Left: water 氵, right: to settle, to fix 定 (Under the roof 宀, everything is correct 正, if things are settled.) For water that is covered, it is correct (normal) to form a sediment. |
瀑 |
waterfall, shower (rain)
Left: water 氵, right: violence, expose 暴 (The sun 日 together 共 with water 水 exposes the violence.) Water and the sun (fall) together into the water and form: the waterfall. |
渣 |
slag (smelting), remainder, dregs
Left: water 氵, right: examine 查 (the tree 木 at the sun rise 旦) When washing 氵 wood 木 on a grid 日, dirt 一 falls down and forms the slag. |
潇 |
deep & clear water, confident and at ease
Left: water 氵, right: mugwort 萧 (grass, plant 艹, respectful 肃 (hand  writing four lines), here: Hand  with stick 丨, stirring sth.) (The broth is thin:) The water with a few grasses, which the hand stirs, appears deep and clear. |
滤 |
to filter, to strain, filtrate
Left: water 氵, right: to worry about 虑 (The tiger 虍 has a heart 心 that has worries.) With this water I have worries and I am filtering it. |
淆 |
mess, confused and disorderly, mixed
Left: water 氵, right: deli food, dishes 肴 (I marked with the cross 㐅, what I want to have 有 from these deli-dishes.) The water 氵 can cause (at a flood) with things 㐅 I have 有: a mess. |
嗨 |
Hey! (loanword), Hi!
Left: mouth 口, right: ocean, sea 海 (Water 氵is in every 每 ocean. [每 = every person  has a mother 母.]) A mouth like an ocean yells: Hey! |
澈 |
clear (water), thorough
Left: water 氵, right: give birth, educate 育 (The new born baby  [=child 子 upside down, as head first at birth] has a body 月, that is born and raised), stick in hand, strike 攵/攴 If the water is correctly "raised" you can strike through: It is such clear. |
沐 |
to bathe, to cleanse, to receive
Left: water 氵, right: tree 木 The water at the tree is for bathing. |
溉 |
irrigate
Left: water 氵, right: already, since 既 (It is not good 艮 with a false tusk 牙, that already since, ..) Water is not good (suitable) to be used in a false tusk for: irrigation. |
涮 |
to rinse, hold briefly into boiling water
Left: water 氵, right: brush 刷 (The "tail" [= cloth 巾 at the buttocks 尸] is cut刂 and used as a brush) [cf. tail 尾] Use water and a brush for rinsing. |
鸿 |
eastern bean goose, great, letter/mail
Left: big river 江 (= The water 氵where it is built 工), right: bird 鸟/鳥 At the big river is this bird: the large bean goose. |
萍 |
duckweed
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 泙 (water 氵, flat, equal 平) The plant that is on the water drifting flatly is the: duckweed. |
沦 |
to sink (into ruin, oblivion), to be lost, submerged, perish
Left: water 氵, right: arrange, set up 仑 (When a person 人 turns into a sitting person 匕, it is well arranged.) In the water a person 人 became a sitting/slumped person 匕: He has sunk and is submerged |
沪 |
short name for Shanghai 上海
Left: water 氵, right: sliding door 戸 At the water is this 'sliding door': The harbor-city: Shanghai |
渊 |
abyss, deep, profound, to surge up
Left: water 氵, right: two separators || rice 米 Like water, the rice container 凵 (with open bottom) can be deep (like an abyss). |
潭 |
pond, pool, pit, profound, depression
Left: water 氵, right: 覃 (west 覀/西, early, fast 早) The water in the west, you reach quickly, is the pond. |
涡 |
eddy, whirlpool
Left: water 氵, right: chat, gossip 呙 (A mouth 口 as big as the chest 内 likes gossip.) The water rotates 口 inside 内 the: eddy. |
溯 |
to go upstream, to trace the source
Left: water 氵, right: new moon 朔 (The disobedient 屰 moon 月 is not shining at new moon) [disobedient 屰 = A plant's 艹 shoot 屮 that grows crooked] (The moon is between sun and earth and can cause spring tides:) The water at new moon can flow upstream. |
澜 |
swelling water, overflowing
Left: water 氵, right: railing, balustrade 阑 (At the gate 门/門 is made of wood 木 with handles 日: a railing) The water at the balustrade is: a swelling water. |
澳 |
deep bay, cove, harbor, Australia 澳大利亚
Left: water 氵, right: obscure 奥 (Under the roof 宀 is rice 米 in big 大 quantities, which is obscure.) (Here can be dangerous backflows:) The water is obscure in the bay. |
洛 |
several rivers 'Luò'
Left: water 水, right: every 各 (Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody.) The waters, yes every, have the river's name: Luò. |
潘 |
water for rinsing rice
Left: water 氵, right: foreign 番 (The modified rice 釆 [rice 米 with emphasis ノ] on the field 田 is foreign.) Use water such that the husk ノ floats at the top and below the rice is on a space/area 田, when: washing the rice. |
溢 |
to overflow, to spill over
Left: water 氵, right: benefit 益 (Laid 丷 tables  with plates 皿 are for him (the restaurant owner) a benefit.) (because it brings new soil as fertilizer) Water can be of use in case of overflowing. |
湘 |
Xiangjiang-river (in Hunan 湖南)
Left: water 氵, right: mutually 相 (At the tree 木 you watch 目 mutually.) The water is (changing) mutually Xiangjiang-river. |
浩 |
grand, vast (water)
Left: water 氵, right: to announce 告 (The cow 牛 opens the mouth 口 to announce sth.) About the water it is announced, if it is vast. |
汪 |
ooze, expanse of water
Left: water 氵, right: king 王 (here: water surface 一 with earth 土) Water that is (mixed) up to its surface with earth is ooze/mud. |
淌 |
to drip, to trickle, to shed (tears)
Left: water 氵, right : esteem, to value 尚 (A small 小 house 宀 with a window 口 is furthermore esteemed.) Water should be esteemed, even if it is only dripping. |
沁 |
to seep, to percolate
Left: water 氵, right: heart 心 The water is close to my heart, even if it: seeps out. |
浙 |
abbr. for Zhejiang 浙江 province in east China
Left: water 氵, right: break 折 (The hand 扌 with an axe 斤 can break or fold.) The water breaks (i.e. at the waterfalls) in Zhejiang. (famous waterfalls) |
淮 |
name of a river, that flows into lake Hongze
Left: water 氵, right: bird 隹 The water with birds is the Huai-river. |
汝 |
you, thou
Left: water 氵, right: woman 女 Water and women, that is needed by: you! |
淳 |
genuine, pure, honest
Left: water 氵, right: enjoy 享 (The tall 高 child 子 is enjoying.) The water can be enjoyed, if it is genuine & pure. |
汀 |
sandbar, sandbank, shoal
Left: water 氵, right: nail 丁 In the water stands (in the depth of) a nail: at a sandbar. |
淫 |
lewdness, wanton, lascivious, obscene, depraved
Left: water 氵, right: hand reaching down 爫; bundle, burden 壬 (spindle for winding up threads) Water cools down and a hand imposes a burden against lewdness. |
湛 |
deep, clear (water)
Left: water 氵, right: extraordinary 甚 (A grain shovel 其 with an extra angle  makes it very extraordinary) The water is extraordinary, if it is deep and clear. |
莎 |
kind of sedge grass, katydid (family Tettigoniidae)
Left: growing plant 艹, right: sand, gravel 沙 (In [unclear] water 氵is always a little 少 sand.) A plant for sandy (grounds) is this: sedge grass. |
涤 |
wash, cleanse
Left: water 氵, right: strip, long thin things 条 (If sb. is sitting with crossed legs 夂 in a tree 木, he appears [from distance] like a long strip) (Steady supply of fresh water) Water should flow in long strips when: washing. |
洼 |
depression, sunken, swamp, hollow
Left: water 氵, right: piled earth 圭 (twice earth 土) Water (aggregates) within piled earth in: a depression. |
溺 |
to drown, to indulge, addicted to, to spoil (a child)
Left: water 氵, right: weak 弱 (Two bows 弓 with ice 冫are too weak.) If you are in the water and get weak, you will drown. |
沌 |
confused, turbid
Left: water 氵, right: barracks 屯 (Where previously plants 艹 and sprouts 乚 were, they build barracks 一) If you build in a swamp (= where there is water and grass and shoots) a barracks, things get confused. |
渎 |
ditch, to drain, gutter, trouble (some one to do)
Left: water 氵, right: to sell 卖 (For ten 十 [coins] the hat 乛 of the leader 头 is sold) [头 = the big 大 with protruding eyes 丶] (To forward it to the purchaser:) For the water that was sold, we use that: ditch. |
汲 |
draw water from well
Left: water 氵, right: to reach 及 (A hand  stretched out to reach something 丿) Water must be reached, if you want to draw it. |
涯 |
border, horizon, shore
From left: water 氵, 厓 (cliff 厂, accumulated 圭 earth 土) Water, a cliff or accumulated earth can (each) be a border. |
漱 |
to gargle, to rinse one's mouth with water
Left: water 氵, right: to suck, drink 欶 (bundle 束, deficient/lack 欠 [A yawning  person 人 is lacking sth.]) Water can be drunk by gargling. |
漓 |
seep through, dripping wet, dripping of sweat
Left: water 氵, right: to part from 离 (Use the trash 㐫 can for the scorpion 禺 [you see 禸 =hint legs 冂 and the sting 厶], so that it "leaves" us.) If the water is parting, it is seeping through. |
澎 |
sound of waves, splatter
Left: water 氵, right: drums 彭 (壴 [twig 十 over bean/drums 豆], right: hair 彡) When the water is drumming until the hair is slanted, then: it roars. |
沽 |
to buy, to sell, abbr. for Tianjin 天津 (also 津沽)
Left: water 氵, right: old 古 (originally: a skull but better as the image of a tomb stone) If the water is old, we need to buy. |
滇 |
Yunnan province 云南 in southwest China
Left: water 氵, right: really, truly 真 (The ten 十 eyes 目 see that the table  is truely real.) [tool 具 = The eye 目 sees on the table  a tool] The water is real in: Yunnan. |
藩 |
a fence (for defense), a pale, border, vassal state
Top: plant 艹, below: water for rinsing 潘 (water 氵, foreign 番 (The modified rice 釆 [rice 米 with emphasis ノ] on the field 田 is foreign.) Plants or water can be (against the foreign), a fence or border. |
淤 |
river sludge, to silt up
Left: water 氵, right: 'particle for relation': in, at 於 (direction 方, person 人 two 二 footsteps) Where did next to the water, in one direction a person leave two footprints? - In the sludge! |
沥 |
to drip, to strain or filter, a trickle
Left: water 氵, right: past, calendar 历 (The cliff 厂 was piled up with force 力: This is the past and has entered into history) (e.g. The bucket is leaking.) If the water has passed, it has dripped out. |
渲 |
wash (color)
Left: water 氵, right: announce 宣 (At the roof 宀 [= highest point] with a first sun ray 一 the sunrise 旦 is announced.) With the water you announce a watery color. |
渭 |
the Wei river in Shaanxi through the Guanzhong 关中 plain
Left: water 氵, right: stomach 胃 (...from field 田 into this bodypart 月) The water wound like a stomach is the: river Wei. |
湄 |
edge, brink, hem
Left: water 氵, right: eyebrow 眉 (The eye 目 is framed 尸 by an eyebrow.) (So that the water (= sweat) does not flow into the eyes.) Against the water, the eyebrows form an edge or hem. |
渝 |
to change, abbr. for Chongqing 重庆
Left: water 氵, right: to assent, approve 俞 (When the arrowhead  gets into the body 月/肉 to cut 刂, I am assenting. [cf. arrow 箭]) (It flows as it wants:) Water assents to change. |
淄 |
(name of a river)
Left: water 氵, right: 甾 (wild river 巛, rice field 田) This water as a wild river at the rice fileds. |
漉 |
wet, dripping, filter, strain liquids
Left: water 氵, right: deer 鹿 (orig. pictograph of a deer) (They do not like to drink from rivers) The water for the deers is where it is drippingly wet. |
鲨 |
shark
Top: sand, gravel 沙 (in [unclear] water 氵is always a little 少 sand), bottom: fish 鱼/魚 In the sandy water is this fish: the shark. |
瀚 |
ocean, vastness
Left: water 氵, right: writing brush 翰 (At sunrise the person 人 takes the feather 羽 as writing brush) Here: similar to tides: 潮 (Like a lake 湖 with changing directions [once old: 古 and also mirrored] the tides=潮) The waters of the tides, where the waves 人 are like feathers 羽: on the ocean. |
漪 |
ripples on water, swirling, small wave
Left: water 氵, right: 猗 (wild animal 犭, strange, odd 奇) [奇 = It is a big 大 possibility 可 but it looks strange.] Water, which is like a wild animal, so strange, is a small rippled wave. |
漾 |
to ripple (water), to overflow
Left: water 氵, right: eternal, forever 羕 (sheep 羊, eternal 永 [= I emphasise 丶 Water 水 has been forever.]) Here: 永 as ripples on the water Water like (wool from) sheep rippling on the water is: rippling. |
漩 |
eddy
Left: water 氵, right: turn, revolve 旋 (The side 方 of the lying person  is okay 正, but he has to be turned [because of bed sores?]) Water, that revolves is an eddy. |
汶 |
Wen River in northwest Sichuan
Left: water 氵, right: text/language 文 The water of the texts: the Wen-River. |
涅 |
to blacken, black mud
Left: water 氵, right: 圼 (varifica. of black 黑 [without fire], which shows the underside of a pot 里 that has been blackened by fire 灬) With water and the black of a pot, you can stain black. |
蒲 |
bullrush, divers reed grasses
Top: growing plant 艹, below: 浦 (water 氵, just now 甫 [(A hand  for holding an item 丶 is what I need 用 just now)]) The plant from the water, I just need is this: reed grass. |
沈 |
to submerge, to sink, immerse, to lower, drop, variant of 沉
Left: water 氵, right: 冘 (big person 大 with broken arms 冖 and leg 乚) On the water, there is sb. with broken limbs: He will submerge! |
潦 |
flooded, heavy rain, careless, puddle
Left: water 氵, right: 尞 (big 大, out of 丷, day 日, small 小) If water comes in big (volumes for a) day over the small, it will: be flooded. |
淑 |
gentle and virtuous, wise
Left: water 氵, right: uncle 叔 (pepper plant 尗, hand 又) The water and my uncle are gentle and virtuous. |
浚 |
to deepen (e.g. a ditch), excavate, extract
Left: water 氵, right: to stay, linger 夋 (nose 厶, legs 儿, upturned foot 夂) When water shall stay there, we need to excavate. |
汛 |
high water, flood, to sprinkle water
Left: water 氵, right: 卂 (cf. to fly 飞 [simplified from 飛], which shows a flying crane) (when hunting swimming mice) This water (loves) the crane: the high water of a flood. |
渤 |
Bohai Sea 渤海 (coast close to Beijing)
Left: water 氵, right: flourishing, prosperous 勃 (Ten 十 symbols 字 of his strength 力 are flourishing suddenly.) The water is prosperous: at the Bohai Sea. |
汾 |
name of a river
Left: water 氵, right: to divide 分 (... with the sword 刀 in 8 八 pieces) The water is divided in this river. |
涎 |
saliva, shamelessly
Left: water 氵, right: spread, extend 延 (This movement 廴 is correct 正 for: spreading or extending) Water that can spread, is: saliva. |
汞 |
mercury (chemistry)
Top: build, work 工, bottom: water 水 It's built like water: mercury. |
渍 |
to soak, penetrate, to be stained, floodwater
Left: water 氵, right: responsibility 责 (Growing plants  and money 贝/貝 mean responsibility) Water has the responsibility (= property) that it can soak. |
沂 |
Yi River, Shandong
Left: water 氵, right: axe 斤 The water of an axe is the Yi-River. |
浒 |
shore, bank of a river
Left: water 氵, right: to allow 许 (Word 讠/言 at noon 午 are allowed) (For non-swimmers:) The water is allowed at: the shore. |
漳 |
Zhang river in Fujian
Left: water 氵, right: medal 章 (Get up 立 early 早 to get a medal.) The water with a medal: The Zhang-river |
湃 |
sound of waves, surge, overwhelming, stormily
Left: water 氵, right: to pray, worship 拜 (With your hand 手 and the prayer drum, you pray & pay respect) Water is to be worshipped when it surges stormily. |
涧 |
mountain stream
Left: water 氵, right: between, among 间 The water that flows for a day 日 through a gate 门 (here: gorge) is a: mountain stream. |
涣 |
disperse expansive (of river), spread
Left: water 氵, right: great/brilliant 奂 (shows woman giving birth; better recognizable in 渙 with: head ⺈, two breasts ハ and spread legs 人) Water is brilliant [better: it gives birth], when it disperses. |
湍 |
to rush (of water), rapid
Left: water 氵, right: concentrated 耑 (like a mountain 山 of beards 而) The water is concentrated in a water's rush/rapid. |
涸 |
to dry, to dry up
Left: water 氵, right: hard, solid 固 (Many things 囗 [i.e. vegetable, roots] with age 古 get hard.) (In respect to) the water sth. became hard/rigid, because it was dried up. |
汕 |
reuse (trap for fish)
Left: water 氵, right: mountain 山 (here: image of a fish trap 凵 with holding rope 丨) It's in the water and looks like a fish trap. |
溥 |
extensive, widespread, pervading, vast
Left: water 氵, right: to announce 尃 (just now 甫 with skillful hands 寸) The water announces that it is extensively widespread. |
藻 |
seaweed, aquatic grasses, elegant
Top: plant 艹, below: bath 澡 (in the water 氵you assemble 喿 [three beaks 口 in a tree 木] for a bath) Plants assembled in the water is: seaweed. |
涟 |
ripple, tearful, flowing water, weeping
Left: water 氵, right: link, combine 连 (Vehicles 车/車 and 'movement' 辶 are linked.) Water can combine to rippling waves or weeping. |
瀛 |
ocean
Left: water 氵, right: 嬴 (to die 亡, mouth 口, woman 女, body 月, ordinary 凡) (e.g.: to trade) With the water one can make (amended) profit 赢: over the sea. |
滕 |
Teng county in Shandong
Top: We (imperial) 朕, bottom: water 水 We are imperial and at the water in: Teng. |
泞 |
muddy, miry, stagnant
Left: water 氵, right: peace, calm 宁 (If the roof 宀 is built with nails 丁, you have your peace.) When water finds its 'peace' (= it is resting), is becomes: muddy. |
淖 |
slush, mud
Left: water 氵, right: excellent 卓 ([Before the day happens:] Fortune telling 卜 early at the morning 早 is excellent.) Due to the water, half of a wheel of the vehicle 車 and the middle of the axle are already immersed: in the slush. |
浦 |
river bank, shore
Left: water 氵, right: just now 甫 (A hand  for holding an item 丶 is what I need 用 just now) Water is just now at the river bank. |
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