The Chinese Radical: 氵


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Meaning
water    氵

Explanation Simplified from this water 水

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
to submerge, die, not, have not, to end
méi, mò
Left: water 氵, right: 殳 (battle axe in a hand 又)
(You can't swim with that weight:) In the water the one with the battle axe in his hand will: submerge.  
HSK 1
water, liquid
shuǐ
(When used as radical: 氵 = Drops of water)
水 is similar to river 川.  
HSK 1
man, Han ethnic group, Chinese (language)
hàn
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.  
HSK 1
to float, to drift, to bleach, elegant
piāo, piǎo, piào
西
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.  
HSK 2
to travel, to swim, to tour, to roam, to walk
yóu
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 trip for swimming.  
HSK 2
steam, vapor

Left: water 氵, right: steam 气 (image of uprising steam)
Also water's steam is steam.  
HSK 2
to wash, to bathe, laundry

Left: water 氵, right: precede, previous 先 (The cow 牛 uses the front legs 儿 to precede.)
(Perhaps later for the flowers? - But:) The water it is precedingly used for: washing.  
HSK 2
swimming, to swim
yǒng
Left: water 氵, right: forever, eternally 永 (I emphasize 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.  
HSK 3
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.  
HSK 3
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!  
HSK 3
clear, pure, to clean up, purge
qīng
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.  
HSK 3
alcohol, wine, liquor
jiǔ
Left: water/liquid 氵, right: wine jar 酉
The liquid in the wine jar is alcohol.  
HSK 3
full, filled, packed, completely
mǎn
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.  
HSK 3
to pour into, to register, note, comment, to inject
zhù
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.  
HSK 3
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 a wrapped person is: thirsty.  
HSK 3
bath
zǎo
Left: water 氵, right: gather 喿 (variant of birds chirping/twittering 噪 from many mouths 口/品 in the tree 木)
At the water you gather (also with gossips and twitter like beaks in a tree): In the baths.  
HSK 4
ocean, foreign, vast
yáng
Left: water 氵, right: sheep 羊 (here: a rippled white wave like the wool of a sheep)
The water can ripple like sheep's (wool) in the vast ocean over which the foreign came.  
HSK 4
to fall, to drop (behind), decline
là, lào, luò, luō
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.  
HSK 4
granule, sand, powder, hoarse, raspy
shā
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.  
HSK 4
warm, temperature
wēn
Left: water 氵, right: 昷 (sun 日 and a bowl/plate 皿)
The water in the sunny bowl becomes warm.  
HSK 4
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.  
HSK 4
oil, fat, grease
yóu
Left: water 氵, right: reason 由 (The sprout/seedling 丨 in the field 田 has its reason)
Water is with reason no oil.  
HSK 4
big river, stream
jiāng
Left: water 氵, right: craftsman 工
(Many cities are located at this river) The 'water', where it is worked, is the: Yangtze (= 长江).  
HSK 4
to flow, to drift, to disseminate, to circulate
liú
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.  
HSK 4
to dye, catch (a disease), contaminate
rǎn
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.  
HSK 4
deep, profound, dark (of color)
shēn
Left: water 氵, right: 罙 (var. or hole 穴, tree 木)
The water hole at the tree is deep.  
HSK 4
(sea) wave, tides, unrestrained, dissipated
làng
Left: water 氵, right: good 良
Only water makes good waves.  
HSK 4
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.  
HSK 4
free, unrestrained, inundate, overflow by water
màn
Left: water 氵, right: handsome 曼 (.. when the sun 日 shines on the eyes 罒 with long eyelashes 又)
(It waters the fields:) The water is handsome, because it is: free in spreading and inundating!  
HSK 4
sweat, perspiration
hàn
Left: water 氵, right: dry 干 (laundry rack)
Water dries like sweat.  
HSK 4
soup, hot or boiling water
tāng
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.  
HSK 4
to disappear, to vanish, to eliminate
xiāo
Left: water 氵, right: alike/resemble sb. 肖 (Small 小 bodies 月 are alike.)
(It evaporates!) Water or alikes can disappear.  
HSK 4
island, continent
zhōu
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.  
HSK 4
ocean, sea
hǎi
Left: water 氵, right: every 每 (every person 人 = has a mother 母) [母 = woman 女 with emphasized swollen breasts : when breast-feeding]
Water is in every ocean.  
HSK 4
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
(During a storm at sea:) When the water is white (= has white foam crests) and into all sides/directions 方 it is striking 攵, it becomes violent.  
HSK 4
to perform, to play, to act, to evolve
yǎn
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 performances.  
HSK 4
to live, alive, activity
huó
Left: water 氵, right: tongue 舌 (Thousand 千 mouths 口 with tongues)
Water on the tongue gives life and vigor.  
HSK 4
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.  
HSK 4
juice, gravy, sauce
zhī
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.  
HSK 5
to converge (of rivers), collection, remit
huì
Left: water 氵, right: embracement 匚
The water is embraced and collected in the confluence.  
HSK 5
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.  
HSK 5
gradually, imbue
jiān, jiàn
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 rust: Water (damages) vehicles and axes: Gradually and little by little]  
HSK 5
casting mold, pattern, model, example
fàn
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.  
HSK 5
tears
lèi
Left: water 氵, right: eye 目
The water in the eye are the tears.  
HSK 5
weak, mild, tasteless, diluted, nitrogen
dàn
Left: water 氵, right: flames 炎 (2x fire 火)
Water makes the flames: weak and mild.  
HSK 5
tide, current, damp, moist
cháo
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.  
HSK 5
school of thought, fraction, sect, pi=π=3.14
pài
Left: water 氵, right: affluents (branches of water 水)
Branched like the water of affluents are the schools of thought or fractions.  
HSK 5
to float, non-specific, general, extensive, inundate
fàn
Left: water 氵, right: short of, lack 乏 (person 人 and 'Z' [A person going zigzag is lacking sth.])
In the water it's lacking (i.e. the direction): it is floating.  
HSK 5
smooth, lubricate, moist
rùn
Left: water 氵, right: 闰 (gate 门/門 and king 王)
With water the gate of the king became smooth and lubricated.  
HSK 5
to heal/cure, to rule, to control, government
zhì
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.  
HSK 5
slippery, smooth, comical, cunning
huá
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.  
HSK 5
to sink, to submerge, to immerse, to keep down
chén
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.  
HSK 5
to boil (liquid), to roll, tumble
gǔn
Left: water 氵, right: 衮 (six 六, nose 厶, clothes 衣)
In the water are six noses and clothes that are boiling.  
HSK 5
concentrated, dense
nóng
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.  
HSK 5
ditch, gutter, groove, gully, ravine
gōu
Left: water 氵, right: hook, sketch 勾 (two hooks 勹, 厶 in engagement)
Water "hooks in" (= aggregates) in the ditch.  
HSK 5
cave, hole, cavity, cavern, empty
dòng
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.  
HSK 5
lake, pond, reservoir, moat
chí
Left: water 氵, right: a twisting creature 也 (i.e. snake, scorpion)
A "water" with snake-like creatures is a: lake.  
HSK 5
shallow (water), light (color)
jiān, qiǎn
Left: water 氵, right: two 二 and halberd 戈
Water covering only two halberds is too shallow.  
HSK 5
to apply (salve, paint), to smear, to daub, scribble

Left: water 氵(here: liquid), right: excess/rest 余 (A heap is still on the altar 示 (= to show), thus in excess.)
If liquid is in excess, we can apply it like a salve/ointment.  
湿
HSK 5
moist, wet
shī
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.  
HSK 5
desert, unconcerned, indifferent, apathetic

Left: water 氵, right: negative 莫 (sink, go down: The plants 艹 are made by the sun 日 to be large 大 [= as long shadows] at sunset.) [sunrise is: 旦 or ]
(Low groundwater level) When the water has sunk, it turns into: a desert.  
HSK 5
to rise (prices, rivers), to swell, distend
zhǎng, zhàng
Left: water 氵, right: stretch 张 (The bow 弓 is long 长/長 and stretched.)
Wenn the water 'stretches' it rises.  
HSK 5
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.  
HSK 5
to leak, to divulge, to leave out by mistake, funnel
lòu
Left: water 氵, right: buttocks from the side 尸 and rain 雨
The water on the buttocks is rain but it 'leaks' down.  
HSK 5
coast, beach, shoal
tān
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.  
HSK 5
to sprinkle, to spray, to spill, to shed

西
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.  
HSK 5
source, origin (of a river), reason
yuán
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.  
HSK 5
to wash, clean out, cleanse, eliminate, dredge
táo
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.  
HSK 5
clear, deep (of water), swift, to skim over / to browse
liú
Left: water 氵, right: 刘 (script, culture 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.  
HSK 5
to pour liquid, to irrigate/water, to cast (metal)
jiāo
Left: Water 氵, right: Emperor Tang Yao 尧 (variation of halberd 戈, variant of table
A water splash (strong like) a halberd on the table: it was poured.  
HSK 5
hot, to burn, to scald, to iron
tàng
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.  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
mingle, to mix, confused, reckless, muddy
hún, hùn
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.  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
fertile, to irrigate, rich

Left: water 氵, right: early death 夭 (here: sky/heaven 天)
Water from heaven brings fertility.  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
to add, to increase, to replenish
tiān
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.  
HSK 6
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 for a child that is floating.  
HSK 6
be dispersed, break down, to fester/ulcerate
kuì
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.  
HSK 6
to slip away, slide, to skate
liū
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.  
HSK 6
to nourish, grow, increase, taste

Left: water 氵, right: now, here 兹 (2x mysterious 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where an upper bracket 艹 holds threads 玄 with hanging stones 石 that are mysterious)
Water is doubly mysterious: It nourishes and lets things grow.  
HSK 6
uncertain, vast, without clear boundary, hazy
máng
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.  
HSK 6
mud, clay, paste, pulp
ní, nì
Left: water 氵, right: nun 尼 (buttock from the side 尸, sitting person 匕)
The water, in which the nun is sitting, is muddy.  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
muddy, unclear, stupid
hún
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.  
HSK 6
foam, blister, swollen, spongy
pāo, pào
Left: water 氵, right: wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
Water, that 'enwraps', is: foam.  
HSK 6
to leak (water, gas, secrets), to drip, drain, disperse
xiè
Left: water 氵, right: epoch, lifetime 世
(A dripping faucet/tap?) The water has for ages been leaking.  
HSK 6
clean, to purify
jié
Left: water 氵, right: happy 吉 (simplification 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.  
HSK 6
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
HSK 6
along, following (a line)
yán
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)  
HSK 6
big wave, breaker (wave)
tāo
寿
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.  
HSK 6
to irrigate, to pour
guàn
Left: water 氵, right: heron/stork 雚 (Between plants 艹 in two ponds ロロ is a bird 隹, the heron)
Give water to the plants at the ponds (supporting the herons/storks) by irrigation.  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
bay, gulf, to cast anchor
wān
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.  
HSK 6
to water sth., to sprinkle, drench, to drip
lín, lìn
Left: water 氵, right: forest 林
With water you'll get a (whole) forest, if you water it.  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
flood, big, great
hóng
Left: water氵, right: together 共 (Put the plants 艹 on the table together.)
The waters together make a flood.  
HSK 6
a ferry crossing, port, saliva
jīn
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.  
HSK 6
to melt, to dissolve, soluble
róng
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.  
HSK 6
overflowing, excessive, indiscriminate
làn
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 / flooding.  
HSK 6
bath, to bathe

Left: water 氵, right: valley 谷 (Shows a valley that opens into a plain 口.)
The water flows into the valley, where you can have your bath.  
HSK 6
lacquer, paint, varnish

Left: water 氵, right: 桼 (tree 木, person 人, drip (variation of water 水 with 5 strokes)
From the water/sap of the tree, the person makes five drops of lacquer.  
HSK 6
inhibit, block, sluggish
zhì
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.  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
to contain, to include, culvert
hán
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.  
HSK 6
to immerse, to soak, to steep, gradually
jìn
Left: water 氵, right: var. of a hand holding a broom 帚
The water in the broom gets soaked up.  
HSK 6
to submerge, to dive, hidden, secret, to conceal
qián
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 despite the sun[-light], they are submerged or hiding.  
HSK 6
harbor, port
gǎng
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.  
HSK 6
surge up, to bubble up, to rush forth, spill
yǒng
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.  
HSK 6
to moisten, to be infected by, to receive favors
zhān
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 fortune telling, you need to moisten sth.  
HSK 6
to overflow, to amplify, to spread out, to develop
yǎn
Outside: to walk 行, middle: water 氵
The water "goes" when it is overflowing.  
HSK 6
to cry, to weep, to sob

Left: water 氵, right: to stand 立
In the water he is standing and cries.  
HSK 6
coast, beach, shore, bank, to border on
bīn
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.  
HSK 6
pond, pool
zhǎo
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.  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
to seep, infiltrate, permeate, to horrify
shèn
Left: water 氵, right: participate 参 (Where the simplified woman 厶 with the big 大 hair 彡 is, I like to participate.)
If water participates, it seeped in.  
HSK 6
rich, wide, vast, broad, expansive
kuò
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.  
HSK 6
to flood, to submerge, to drown, delay
yān
Left: water 氵, right: suddenly 奄 (i.e lightning strike: 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.  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
to boil, bubbling up
fèi
Left: water 氵, right: denial, not 弗 (here not etymological: flow water heater with heater coil 弓 and pipes || that are streamed through)
The water in the boiler is boiled.  
HSK 6
to wade (trough a river), to be involved, experience
shè
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.  
HSK 6
diarrhea, to flow out swiftly, a torrent
xiè
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.  
HSK 6
to surge up violently, tumultuous, turbulent
xiōng
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.  
HSK 6
clear, limpid, to purify, settle (liquid)
chéng, dèng
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.  
HSK 6
overflow, inundate, torrent-dash
tāo
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.  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
tart, acerbity, unsmooth, rough(surface), obscure

Left: water 氵, right: blade of a knife 刃 (here: drop 丶), stop 止 (imprint of right foot)
(Rust formation?) The drop of water that stopped (= remained) on the knife was tart (acid) and left a roughness.  
HSK 6
destroy, dispirited, to stop

Left: water 氵, right: further/moreover 且 (A pile of stones [= a stone cairn] where moreover stones are added.)
If the water (= the flood) is high as the piled stones, it destroys and we are dispirited.  
HSK 6
splash, spatter, spill
jiàn
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.  
HSK 6
distant and indistinct, vast, tiny (due to distance)
miǎo
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.  
HSK 6
to wash out, discard, to eliminate
tài
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.  
HSK 6
impure, turbid, muddy
zhuó
Left: water 氵, right: insect 虫
Water with insects is impure.  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
blue-green or azure (water), vast (ocean)
cāng
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.  
HSK 6
abundant, copious
pèi
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.  
HSK 6
accord, to agree, to make contact, in harmony
qià
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.  
HSK 6
to be close to, near, to approach
bīn
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.  
HSK 6
sediment, deposits, precipitate
diàn
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.  
HSK 6
waterfall, shower (rain)
bào, pù
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.  
HSK 6
slag (smelting), remainder, dregs
zhā
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.  
HSK 6
deep & clear water, confident and at ease
xiāo
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.  
HSK 6
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.  
HSK 6
mess, confused and disorderly, mixed
xiáo
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.  
HSK 6
Hey!, Hi!
hāi
Left: mouth 口, right: ocean, sea 海 (Water 氵is in every 每 ocean. [every 每 = every person has a mother 母.])
A mouth like an ocean yells: Hey!  
HSK 6
clear (water), thorough
chè
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.  
HSK 6
to bathe, to cleanse, to receive

Left: water 氵, right: tree 木
The water at the tree is for bathing.  
HSK 6
irrigate
gài
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.  
HSK 6
to rinse, hold briefly into boiling water
shuàn
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
no HSK
eastern bean goose, great, letter/mail
hóng
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.  
no HSK
duckweed
píng
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 泙 (water 氵, flat, equal 平)
The plant that is on the water drifting flatly is the: duckweed.  
no HSK
to sink (into ruin, oblivion), to be lost, submerged, perish
lún
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  
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short name for Shanghai 上海

Left: water 氵, right: sliding door 戸
At the water is this 'sliding door': The harbor-city: Shanghai  
no HSK
abyss, deep, profound, to surge up
yuān
Left: water 氵, right: two separators || rice 米
Like water, the rice container 凵 (with open bottom) can be deep (like an abyss).  
no HSK
pond, pool, pit, profound, depression
tán
西
Left: water 氵, right: 覃 (west 覀/西, early, fast 早)
The water in the west, you reach quickly, is the pond.  
no HSK
eddy, whirlpool
guō, wō
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.  
no HSK
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 is disobedient.]
(The moon is between sun and earth and can cause spring tides:) The water at new moon can flow upstream.  
no HSK
swelling water, overflowing
lán
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.  
no HSK
deep bay, cove, harbor, Australia 澳大利亚
ào
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.  
no HSK
several rivers 'Luò'
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.  
no HSK
water for rinsing rice
pān
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.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
Xiangjiang-river (in Hunan 湖南)
xiāng
Left: water 氵, right: mutually 相 (At the tree 木 you watch 目 mutually.)
The water is (changing) mutually Xiangjiang-river.  
no HSK
grand, vast (water)
hào
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.  
no HSK
ooze, expanse of water
wāng
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.  
no HSK
to drip, to trickle, to shed (tears)
tǎng
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.  
no HSK
to seep, to percolate
qìn
Left: water 氵, right: heart 心
The water is close to my heart, even if it: seeps out.  
no HSK
abbr. for Zhejiang 浙江 province in east China
zhè
Left: water 氵, right: break 折 (A hand 扌 with an axe 斤 breaks or causes a loss)
The water breaks (i.e. at the waterfalls) in Zhejiang. (famous waterfalls)  
no HSK
name of a river, that flows into lake Hongze
huái
Left: water 氵, right: bird 隹
The water with birds is the Huai-river.  
no HSK
you, thou

Left: water 氵, right: woman 女
Water and women, that is needed by: you!  
no HSK
genuine, pure, honest
chún
Left: water 氵, right: enjoy 享 (The tall 高 child 子 is enjoying.)
The water can be enjoyed, if it is genuine & pure.  
no HSK
sandbar, sandbank, shoal
tīng
Left: water 氵, right: nail 丁
In the water has only (the depth of) a nail: at a sandbar.  
no HSK
lewdness, wanton, lascivious, obscene, depraved
yín
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.  
no HSK
deep, clear (water)
zhàn
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.  
no HSK
kind of sedge grass
shā, suō
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.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
depression, sunken, swamp, hollow

Left: water 氵, right: piled earth 圭 (twice earth 土)
Water (aggregates) within piled earth in: a depression.  
no HSK
to drown, to indulge, addicted to, to spoil (a child)
nì, niào
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.  
no HSK
confused, turbid
dùn
Left: water 氵, right: barracks 屯 (On fertile ground, where growing shoots 屮 pierced the ground 一 they built a barracks.)
If you build in a swamp (= where there is water and grass and shoots) a barracks, things get confused.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
to gargle, to rinse one's mouth with water
shù
Left: water 氵, right: 欶 (bundle 束, deficient/lack 欠 [A yawning person 人 is lacking sth.])
The water is first in a 'bundle' and then lacks: when rinsing.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
sound of waves, splatter
péng
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.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
Yunnan province 云南 in southwest China
diān
Left: water 氵, right: really, truly 真 (What is seen by ten 十 eyes 目 on the table is truely real.) [tool 具 = The eye 目 sees on the table a tool]
The water is real in: Yunnan.  
no HSK
a fence (for defense), a pale, border, vassal state
fān
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.  
no HSK
river sludge, to silt up

Left: water 氵, right: [for the pronunciation] 'particle for relation': in, at 於 (direction 方, person 人 two 二 footsteps)
Where were next to the water, in one direction by a person two footprints left? - In the sludge!  
no HSK
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)
(The bucket is leaking:) If the water has passed, it has dripped out.  
no HSK
wash (color)
xuàn
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.  
no HSK
the Wei river in Shaanxi through the Guanzhong 关中 plain
wèi
Left: water 氵, right: stomach 胃 (.. from field 田 into this bodypart 月/肉)
The water wound like a stomach is the: river Wei.  
no HSK
edge, brink, hem
méi
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.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
(name of a river)

Left: water 氵, right: 甾 (wild river 巛, rice field 田)
This water as a wild river at the rice fields.  
no HSK
wet, dripping, filter, strain liquids

鹿
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.  
no HSK
shark
shā
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.  
no HSK
ocean, vastness
hàn
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.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
to ripple (water), to overflow
yàng
Left: water 氵, right: eternal, forever 羕 (sheep 羊, eternal 永 [= I emphasize 丶 Water 水 has been forever.]) Here: 永 as ripples on the water
Water like (wool from) sheep rippling on the water is: rippling. Or: In the ocean 洋 the eternal water 水/永 is rippling.  
no HSK
eddy
xuán
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.  
no HSK
Wen River in northwest Sichuan
wèn
Left: water 氵, right: text/language 文
The water of the texts: the Wen-River.  
no HSK
to blacken, black mud
niè
Left: water 氵, right: 圼 (varification 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.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
to submerge, to sink, immerse, to lower, drop, variant of 沉
chén, shěn
Left: water 氵, right: 冘 (big person 大 with broken arms 冖 and a broken leg 乚)
In the water is sb. with broken limbs, who will submerge!  
no HSK
flooded, heavy rain, careless, puddle
lǎo, liáo
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.  
no HSK
gentle and virtuous, wise
shū
Left: water 氵, right: younger uncle 叔 (pepper plant 尗, hand 又)
When spreading water 氵on the pepper plants 尗 by hand 又, you are gentle and virtuous.  
no HSK
to deepen (e.g. a ditch), excavate, extract
jùn
Left: water 氵, right: to dawdle = go slowly or to stay 夋 (nose 厶, legs 儿, upturned foot 夂)
When water shall stay there, we need to excavate.  
no HSK
high water, flood, to sprinkle water
xùn
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.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
name of a river
fén
Left: water 氵, right: to divide 分 (... with the sword 刀 in 8 八 pieces)
The water is divided in this river.  
no HSK
saliva, shamelessly
xián
Left: water 氵, right: spread, extend 延 (This movement 廴 is correct 正 for: spreading or extending)
Water that can spread, is: saliva.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
Yi River, Shandong

Left: water 氵, right: axe 斤
The water of an axe is the Yi-River.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
Zhang river in Fujian
zhāng
Left: water 氵, right: medal 章 (Get up 立 early 早 to get a medal.)
The water with a medal: The Zhang-river.  
no HSK
sound of waves, surge, overwhelming, stormily
pài
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.  
no HSK
mountain stream, brook
jiàn
Left: water 氵, right: between, gap 间 (The sun 日 shines though the gate 门/門 due to a gap.)
The water that flows for a day 日 through a gate 门 (here: gorge) is a: mountain stream.  
no HSK
disperse expansive (of river), spread
huàn
Left: water 氵, right: great/brilliant 奂 (shows a 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.  
no HSK
to rush (of water), rapid
tuān
Left: water 氵, right: concentrated 耑 (like a mountain 山 of beards 而)
The water is concentrated in a water's rush/rapid.  
no HSK
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 dried up.  
no HSK
reuse (trap for fish)
shàn
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.  
no HSK
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.  
no HSK
seaweed, aquatic grasses, elegant
zǎo
Top: plant 艹, bottom: bath 澡 (in the water 氵you assemble 喿 for a bath.) [assemble 喿 = three beaks 口 of birds assembled in a tree 木]
Plants that are assembled in the water is: seaweed.  
no HSK
ripple, tearful, flowing water, weeping
lián
Left: water 氵, right: to link, combine 连 (Vehicles 车/車 and 'movement' 辶 are linked.)
Water can combine to rippling waves or weeping.  
no HSK
ocean
yíng
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.  
no HSK
muddy, miry, stagnant
nìng
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.  
no HSK
slush, mud
nào
Left: water 氵, right: excellent 卓 ([Before the day happens:] Fortune telling 卜 early at the morning 早 is excellent.) Here: see 卓 as a variation of the traditional character for vehicle 車, which comprised an axle 丨, a loading area 日 and two wheels 二 (seen from above)
Due to the water, half of a wheel of the vehicle 車 and the middle of the axle are already immersed: into the slush.  
no HSK
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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