The Chinese Radical: 氵

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Meaning	Water    氵
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Used in these characters: 没 JLPT HSK 1 to submerge, die, not, have not, to end méi, mò 氵 殳 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.   水 JLPT HSK 1 water, liquid shuǐ 水 氵 (When used as radical: 氵 = Drops of water) 水 is similar to river 川.   汉 JLPT HSK 1 man, Han ethnic group, Chinese (language) hàn 氵 又 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 JLPT HSK 1 to float, to drift, to bleach, elegant piāo, piǎo, piào 氵 票 西 示 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 JLPT HSK 2 to travel, to swim, to tour, to roam, to walk yóu 氵 方 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.   汽 JLPT HSK 2 steam, vapor qì 氵 气 Left: water 氵, right: steam 气 (image of uprising steam) Also water's steam is steam.   洗 JLPT HSK 2 to wash, to bathe, laundry xǐ 氵 先 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.   泳 JLPT HSK 2 swimming, to swim yǒng 氵 永 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.   河 JLPT HSK 3 river hé 氵 可 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 JLPT HSK 3 law, method, way, Buddhist teaching fǎ 氵 去 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 JLPT HSK 3 clear, pure, to clean up, purge qīng 氵 青 丰 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 JLPT HSK 3 alcohol, wine, liquor jiǔ 氵 酉 Left: water/liquid 氵, right: wine jar 酉 The liquid in the wine jar is alcohol.   满 JLPT HSK 3 full, filled, packed, completely mǎn 氵 艹 两 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 JLPT HSK 3 to pour into, to register, note, comment, to inject zhù 氵 主 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 JLPT HSK 3 thirsty kě 氵 曷 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.   澡 JLPT HSK 3 bath zǎo 氵 喿 品 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.   洋 JLPT HSK 4 ocean, foreign, vast yáng 氵 羊 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.   落 JLPT HSK 4 to fall, to drop (behind), decline là, lào, luò, luō 艹 氵 各 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 JLPT HSK 4 granule, sand, powder, hoarse, raspy shā 氵 少 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 JLPT HSK 4 warm, temperature wēn 氵 日 皿 Left: water 氵, right: 昷 (sun 日 and a bowl/plate 皿) The water in the sunny bowl becomes warm.   济 JLPT HSK 4 to cross a river, to aid or relieve, to be of help jì 氵 齐 文 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 JLPT HSK 4 oil, fat, grease yóu 氵 由 Left: water 氵, right: reason 由 (The sprout/seedling 丨 in the field 田 has its reason) Water is with reason no oil.   江 JLPT HSK 4 big river, stream jiāng 氵 工 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 JLPT HSK 4 to flow, to drift, to disseminate, to circulate liú 氵 㐬 川 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 JLPT HSK 4 to dye, catch (a disease), contaminate rǎn 氵 九 木 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 JLPT HSK 4 deep, profound, dark (of color) shēn 氵 穴 木 Left: water 氵, right: 罙 (var. or hole 穴, tree 木) The water hole at the tree is deep.   浪 JLPT HSK 4 (sea) wave, tides, unrestrained, dissipated làng 氵 良 Left: water 氵, right: good 良 Only water makes good waves.   污 JLPT HSK 4 dirty, filthy, foul, corrupt, to defile wū 氵 丂 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 JLPT HSK 4 free, unrestrained, inundate, overflow by water màn 氵 曼 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!   汗 JLPT HSK 4 sweat, perspiration hàn 氵 干 Left: water 氵, right: dry 干 (laundry rack) Water dries like sweat.   汤 JLPT HSK 4 soup, hot or boiling water tāng 汤 氵 易 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 JLPT HSK 4 to disappear, to vanish, to eliminate xiāo 氵 肖 Left: water 氵, right: alike/resemble sb. 肖 (Small 小 bodies 月 are alike.) (It evaporates!) Water or alikes can disappear.   洲 JLPT HSK 4 island, continent zhōu 氵 州 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 JLPT HSK 4 ocean, sea hǎi 氵 每 母 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.   激 JLPT HSK 4 violent, to arouse, to excite, fierce jī 氵 敫 白 放 攴 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.   演 JLPT HSK 4 to perform, to play, to act, to evolve yǎn 氵 宀 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.   活 JLPT HSK 4 to live, alive, activity huó 氵 舌 Left: water 氵, right: tongue 舌 (Thousand 千 mouths 口 with tongues) Water on the tongue gives life and vigor.   泼 JLPT HSK 4 to splash, to spill, rough and coarse, brutish pō 氵 发 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 JLPT HSK 4 juice, gravy, sauce zhī 氵 十 录 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 JLPT HSK 5 to converge (of rivers), collection, remit huì 氵 匚 Left: water 氵, right: embracement 匚 The water is embraced and collected in the confluence.   测 JLPT HSK 5 to measure, to survey, observe, probe, conjecture, to monitor cè 氵 则 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 JLPT HSK 5 gradually, imbue jiān, jiàn 氵 斩 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]   范 JLPT HSK 5 casting mold, pattern, model, example fàn 艹 氵 㔾 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 JLPT HSK 5 tears lèi 氵 Left: water 氵, right: eye 目 The water in the eye are the tears.   淡 JLPT HSK 5 weak, mild, tasteless, diluted, nitrogen dàn 氵 炎 Left: water 氵, right: flames 炎 (2x fire 火) Water makes the flames: weak and mild.   潮 JLPT HSK 5 tide, current, damp, moist cháo 朝 氵 古 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 JLPT HSK 5 school of thought, fraction, sect, pi=π=3.14 pài 氵 Left: water 氵, right: affluents (branches of water 水) Branched like the water of affluents are the schools of thought or fractions.   泛 JLPT HSK 5 to float, non-specific, general, extensive, inundate fàn 氵 之 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.   润 JLPT HSK 5 smooth, lubricate, moist rùn 氵 门 王 Left: water 氵, right: 闰 (gate 门/門 and king 王) With water the gate of the king became smooth and lubricated.   治 JLPT HSK 5 to heal/cure, to rule, to control, government zhì 氵 台 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 JLPT HSK 5 slippery, smooth, comical, cunning huá 氵 骨 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 JLPT HSK 5 to sink, to submerge, to immerse, to keep down chén 氵 冗 冖 几 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 JLPT HSK 5 to boil (liquid), to roll, tumble gǔn 氵 六 衣 Left: water 氵, right: 衮 (six 六, nose 厶, clothes 衣) In the water are six noses and clothes that are boiling.   浓 JLPT HSK 5 concentrated, dense nóng 氵 农 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 JLPT HSK 5 ditch, gutter, groove, gully, ravine gōu 氵 勾 Left: water 氵, right: hook, sketch 勾 (two hooks 勹, 厶 in engagement) Water "hooks in" (= aggregates) in the ditch.   洞 JLPT HSK 5 cave, hole, cavity, cavern, empty dòng 氵 同 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 JLPT HSK 5 lake, pond, reservoir, moat chí 氵 也 Left: water 氵, right: a twisting creature 也 (i.e. snake, scorpion) A "water" with snake-like creatures is a: lake.   浅 JLPT HSK 5 shallow (water), light (color) jiān, qiǎn 氵 戋 戈 Left: water 氵, right: two 二 and halberd 戈 Water covering only two halberds is too shallow.   涂 JLPT HSK 5 to apply (salve, paint), to smear, to daub, scribble tú 氵 余 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 JLPT HSK 5 moist, wet shī 氵 日 业 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 JLPT HSK 5 desert, unconcerned, indifferent, apathetic mò 氵 莫 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.   涨 JLPT HSK 5 to rise (prices, rivers), to swell, distend zhǎng, zhàng 氵 弓 長 Left: water 氵, right: stretch 张 (The bow 弓 is long 长/長 and stretched.) Wenn the water 'stretches' it rises.   滴 JLPT HSK 5 a drop, to drip dī 氵 帝 古 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 JLPT HSK 5 to leak, to divulge, to leave out by mistake, funnel lòu 氵 尸 雨 Left: water 氵, right: buttocks from the side 尸 and rain 雨 The water on the buttocks is rain but it 'leaks' down.   滩 JLPT HSK 5 coast, beach, shoal tān 氵 难 又 隹 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 JLPT HSK 5 to sprinkle, to spray, to spill, to shed sǎ 氵 西 雨 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 JLPT HSK 5 source, origin (of a river), reason yuán 氵 厂 泉 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 JLPT HSK 5 to wash, clean out, cleanse, eliminate, dredge táo 氵 匋 勹 缶 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 JLPT HSK 5 clear, deep (of water), swift, to skim over / to browse liú 氵 文 刂 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.   浇 JLPT HSK 5 to pour liquid, to irrigate/water, to cast (metal) jiāo 氵 尧 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.   烫 JLPT HSK 5 hot, to burn, to scald, to iron tàng 汤 火 氵 易 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 JLPT HSK 6 wave, ripple, storm, surge bō 氵 皮 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 JLPT HSK 6 mingle, to mix, confused, reckless, muddy hún, hùn 氵 昆 比 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 JLPT HSK 6 fishing, to fish, fisherman yú 氵 魚 Left: water 氵, right: fish 鱼/魚 (.. with mouth ⺈, body 田 and tail fin 灬) Water with fish stands for fishing.   沃 JLPT HSK 6 fertile, to irrigate, rich wò 氵 夭 天 Left: water 氵, right: early death 夭 (here: sky/heaven 天) Water from heaven brings fertility.   液 JLPT HSK 6 liquid, fluid yè 氵 夜 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 JLPT HSK 6 to add, to increase, to replenish tiān 氵 天 心 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 JLPT HSK 6 to float, unstable, superficial, excessive fú 氵 孚 爫 子 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.   溃 JLPT HSK 6 be dispersed, break down, to fester/ulcerate kuì 氵 贵 堇 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 JLPT HSK 6 to slip away, slide, to skate liū 氵 留 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 JLPT HSK 6 to nourish, grow, increase, taste zī 氵 兹 玄 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.   茫 JLPT HSK 6 uncertain, vast, without clear boundary, hazy máng 艹 氵 亡 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 JLPT HSK 6 mud, clay, paste, pulp ní, nì 氵 尼 尸 匕 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 JLPT HSK 6 moist, wet, lustre (of metals etc), pond, favor zé 氵 圣 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 JLPT HSK 6 muddy, unclear, stupid hún 氵 军 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 JLPT HSK 6 foam, blister, swollen, spongy pāo, pào 氵 包 Left: water 氵, right: wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.) Water, that 'enwraps', is: foam.   泄 JLPT HSK 6 to leak (water, gas, secrets), to drip, drain, disperse xiè 氵 世 Left: water 氵, right: epoch, lifetime 世 (A dripping faucet/tap?) The water has for ages been leaking.   洁 JLPT HSK 6 clean, to purify jié 氵 吉 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.   泊 JLPT HSK 6 to anchor, touch at, to moor bó 氵 白 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 JLPT HSK 6 along, following (a line) yán 氵 谷 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 JLPT HSK 6 big wave, breaker (wave) tāo 氵 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.   灌 JLPT HSK 6 to irrigate, to pour guàn 氵 雚 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 JLPT HSK 6 lake hú 氵 胡 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 JLPT HSK 6 bay, gulf, to cast anchor wān 氵 弓 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 JLPT HSK 6 to water sth., to sprinkle, drench, to drip lín, lìn 氵 林 Left: water 氵, right: forest 林 With water you'll get a (whole) forest, if you water it.   溪 JLPT HSK 6 rivulet =small river, creek xī 氵 爫 糸 大 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 JLPT HSK 6 flood, big, great hóng 氵 共 Left: water氵, right: together 共 (Put the plants 艹 on the table together.) The waters together make a flood.   津 JLPT HSK 6 a ferry crossing, port, saliva jīn 氵 聿 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 JLPT HSK 6 to melt, to dissolve, soluble róng 氵 容 宀 谷 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 JLPT HSK 6 overflowing, excessive, indiscriminate làn 氵 监 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.   浴 JLPT HSK 6 bath, to bathe yù 氵 谷 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.   漆 JLPT HSK 6 lacquer, paint, varnish qī 氵 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.   滞 JLPT HSK 6 inhibit, block, sluggish zhì 氵 巾 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 JLPT HSK 6 ditch, drain, stream or canal qú 氵 巨 木 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 JLPT HSK 6 to contain, to include, culvert hán 氵 乛 水 凵 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 JLPT HSK 6 to immerse, to soak, to steep, gradually jìn 氵 彐 Left: water 氵, right: var. of a hand holding a broom 帚 The water in the broom gets soaked up.   潜 JLPT HSK 6 to submerge, to dive, hidden, secret, to conceal qián 氵 夫 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.   港 JLPT HSK 6 harbor, port gǎng 氵 共 己 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 JLPT HSK 6 surge up, to bubble up, to rush forth, spill yǒng 氵 甬 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 JLPT HSK 6 to moisten, to be infected by, to receive favors zhān 氵 占 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.   衍 JLPT HSK 6 to overflow, to amplify, to spread out, to develop yǎn 行 氵 Outside: to walk 行, middle: water 氵 The water "goes" when it is overflowing.   泣 JLPT HSK 6 to cry, to weep, to sob qì 氵 立 Left: water 氵, right: to stand 立 In the water he is standing and cries.   滨 JLPT HSK 6 coast, beach, shore, bank, to border on bīn 氵 宾 兵 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 JLPT HSK 6 pond, pool zhǎo 氵 召 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 JLPT HSK 6 foam, suds mò 氵 末 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 JLPT HSK 6 to seep, infiltrate, permeate, to horrify shèn 氵 参 彡 Left: water 氵, right: participate 参 (Where the simplified woman ム with the big 大 hair 彡 is, I like to participate.) If water participates, it seeped in.   阔 JLPT HSK 6 rich, wide, vast, broad, expansive kuò 门 氵 舌 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 JLPT HSK 6 to flood, to submerge, to drown, delay yān 氵 奄 电 乚 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.   泌 JLPT HSK 6 seep out, pour off, secrete bì 氵 必 Left: water 氵, right: certainly 必 (The heart 心 is pierced by a lance ノ - certainly!) The water will certainly seep out.   沸 JLPT HSK 6 to boil, bubbling up fèi 氵 弗 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.   涉 JLPT HSK 6 to wade (trough a river), to be involved, experience shè 氵 步 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 JLPT HSK 6 diarrhea, to flow out swiftly, a torrent xiè 氵 冖 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 JLPT HSK 6 to surge up violently, tumultuous, turbulent xiōng 氵 凶 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 JLPT HSK 6 clear, limpid, to purify, settle (liquid) chéng, dèng 氵 登 癶 豆 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 JLPT HSK 6 overflow, inundate, torrent-dash tāo 氵 舀 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 JLPT HSK 6 to cross, to pass through, to ferry dù 氵 度 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 JLPT HSK 6 tart, acerbity, unsmooth, rough(surface), obscure sè 氵 刃 止 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.   沮 JLPT HSK 6 destroy, dispirited, to stop jǔ 氵 且 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.   溅 JLPT HSK 6 splash, spatter, spill jiàn 氵 贝 戋 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 JLPT HSK 6 distant and indistinct, vast, tiny (due to distance) miǎo 氵 目 少 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 JLPT HSK 6 to wash out, discard, to eliminate tài 氵 太 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 JLPT HSK 6 impure, turbid, muddy zhuó 氵 虫 Left: water 氵, right: insect 虫 Water with insects is impure.   涕 JLPT HSK 6 snivel, nasal mucus, tears tì 氵 弟 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 JLPT HSK 6 blue-green or azure (water), vast (ocean) cāng 氵 仓 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 JLPT HSK 6 abundant, copious pèi 氵 市 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 JLPT HSK 6 accord, to agree, to make contact, in harmony qià 氵 合 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 JLPT HSK 6 to be close to, near, to approach bīn 氵 步 頁 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 JLPT HSK 6 sediment, deposits, precipitate diàn 氵 宀 正 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 JLPT HSK 6 waterfall, shower (rain) bào, pù 氵 暴 日 共 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 JLPT HSK 6 slag (smelting), remainder, dregs zhā 氵 木 旦 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 JLPT HSK 6 deep & clear water, confident and at ease xiāo 氵 艹 隶 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 JLPT HSK 6 to filter, to strain, filtrate lǜ 氵 虍 心 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 JLPT HSK 6 mess, confused and disorderly, mixed xiáo 氵 㐅 有 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 JLPT HSK 6 Hey!, Hi! hāi 口 氵 母 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!   澈 JLPT HSK 6 clear (water), thorough chè 氵 育 攴 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 JLPT HSK 6 to bathe, to cleanse, to receive mù 氵 木 Left: water 氵, right: tree 木 The water at the tree is for bathing.   溉 JLPT HSK 6 irrigate gài 氵 既 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 JLPT HSK 6 to rinse, hold briefly into boiling water shuàn 氵 尸 巾 刂 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 JLPT no HSK eastern bean goose, great, letter/mail hóng 氵 工 鳥 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 JLPT no HSK duckweed píng 艹 氵 平 Top: plant 艹, bottom: 泙 (water 氵, flat, equal 平) The plant that is on the water drifting flatly is the: duckweed.   沦 JLPT no HSK to sink (into ruin, oblivion), to be lost, submerged, perish lún 氵 仑 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 JLPT no HSK short name for Shanghai 上海 hù 氵 戶 Left: water 氵, right: sliding door 戸 At the water is this 'sliding door': The harbor-city: Shanghai   渊 JLPT no HSK abyss, deep, profound, to surge up yuān 氵 丨 米 Left: water 氵, right: two separators || rice 米 Like water, the rice container 凵 (with open bottom) can be deep (like an abyss).   潭 JLPT no HSK pond, pool, pit, profound, depression tán 氵 西 早 Left: water 氵, right: 覃 (west 覀/西, early, fast 早) The water in the west, you reach quickly, is the pond.   涡 JLPT no HSK eddy, whirlpool guō, wō 氵 呙 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 JLPT no HSK to go upstream, to trace the source sù 氵 朔 屰 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.   澜 JLPT no HSK swelling water, overflowing lán 氵 门 柬 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 JLPT no HSK deep bay, cove, harbor, Australia 澳大利亚 ào 氵 奥 大 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 JLPT no HSK several rivers 'Luò' luò 氵 各 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 JLPT no HSK water for rinsing rice pān 氵 番 釆 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 JLPT no HSK to overflow, to spill over yì 氵 皿 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 JLPT no HSK Xiangjiang-river (in Hunan 湖南) xiāng 氵 相 Left: water 氵, right: mutually 相 (At the tree 木 you watch 目 mutually.) The water is (changing) mutually Xiangjiang-river.   浩 JLPT no HSK grand, vast (water) hào 氵 告 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 JLPT no HSK ooze, expanse of water wāng 氵 王 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 JLPT no HSK to drip, to trickle, to shed (tears) tǎng 氵 尚 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 JLPT no HSK to seep, to percolate qìn 氵 心 Left: water 氵, right: heart 心 The water is close to my heart, even if it: seeps out.   浙 JLPT no HSK abbr. for Zhejiang 浙江 province in east China zhè 氵 折 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)   淮 JLPT no HSK name of a river, that flows into lake Hongze huái 氵 隹 Left: water 氵, right: bird 隹 The water with birds is the Huai-river.   汝 JLPT no HSK you, thou rǔ 氵 女 Left: water 氵, right: woman 女 Water and women, that is needed by: you!   淳 JLPT no HSK genuine, pure, honest chún 氵 享 Left: water 氵, right: enjoy 享 (The tall 高 child 子 is enjoying.) The water can be enjoyed, if it is genuine & pure.   汀 JLPT no HSK sandbar, sandbank, shoal tīng 氵 丁 Left: water 氵, right: nail 丁 In the water has only (the depth of) a nail: at a sandbar.   淫 JLPT no HSK lewdness, wanton, lascivious, obscene, depraved yín 氵 爫 壬 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 JLPT no HSK deep, clear (water) zhàn 氵 甚 匹 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 JLPT no HSK kind of sedge grass shā, suō 艹 氵 少 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 JLPT no HSK wash, cleanse dí 氵 夂 木 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 JLPT no HSK depression, sunken, swamp, hollow wā 氵 圭 Left: water 氵, right: piled earth 圭 (twice earth 土) Water (aggregates) within piled earth in: a depression.   溺 JLPT no HSK to drown, to indulge, addicted to, to spoil (a child) nì, niào 氵 弓 冫 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 JLPT no HSK confused, turbid dùn 氵 屯 乚 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.   渎 JLPT no HSK ditch, to drain, gutter, trouble (some one to do) dú 氵 卖 乛 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 JLPT no HSK draw water from well jí 氵 及 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 JLPT no HSK border, horizon, shore yá 氵 圭 From left: water 氵, 厓 (cliff 厂, accumulated 圭 earth 土) Water, a cliff or accumulated earth can (each) be a border.   漱 JLPT no HSK to gargle, to rinse one's mouth with water shù 氵 欶 束 欠 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.   漓 JLPT no HSK seep through, dripping wet, dripping of sweat lí 氵 㐫 离 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 JLPT no HSK sound of waves, splatter péng 氵 壴 彡 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 JLPT no HSK to buy, to sell, abbr. for Tianjin 天津 (also 津沽) gū 氵 古 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 JLPT no HSK Yunnan province 云南 in southwest China diān 氵 真 具 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 JLPT no HSK a fence (for defense), a pale, border, vassal state fān 艹 氵 番 釆 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 JLPT no HSK river sludge, to silt up yū 氵 方 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!   沥 JLPT no HSK to drip, to strain or filter, a trickle lì 氵 厂 力 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.   渲 JLPT no HSK wash (color) xuàn 氵 宣 旦 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 JLPT no HSK the Wei river in Shaanxi through the Guanzhong 关中 plain wèi 氵 胃 Left: water 氵, right: stomach 胃 (.. from field 田 into this bodypart 月/肉) The water wound like a stomach is the: river Wei.   湄 JLPT no HSK edge, brink, hem méi 氵 眉 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 JLPT no HSK to change, abbr. for Chongqing 重庆 yú 氵 俞 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 JLPT no HSK (name of a river) zī 氵 巛 Left: water 氵, right: 甾 (wild river 巛, rice field 田) This water as a wild river at the rice fields.   漉 JLPT no HSK wet, dripping, filter, strain liquids lù 氵 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.   鲨 JLPT no HSK shark shā 氵 少 魚 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 JLPT no HSK ocean, vastness hàn 氵 羽 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 JLPT no HSK ripples on water, swirling, small wave yī 氵 犭 奇 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 JLPT no HSK to ripple (water), to overflow yàng 氵 羊 永 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.   漩 JLPT no HSK eddy xuán 氵 旋 方 正 疋 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 JLPT no HSK Wen River in northwest Sichuan wèn 氵 文 Left: water 氵, right: text/language 文 The water of the texts: the Wen-River.   涅 JLPT no HSK to blacken, black mud niè 氵 黑 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.   蒲 JLPT no HSK bullrush, divers reed grasses pú 艹 氵 甫 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 JLPT no HSK to submerge, to sink, immerse, to lower, drop, variant of 沉 chén, shěn 氵 冘 乚 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!   潦 JLPT no HSK flooded, heavy rain, careless, puddle lǎo, liáo 氵 尞 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 JLPT no HSK gentle and virtuous, wise shū 氵 叔 尗 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.   浚 JLPT no HSK to deepen (e.g. a ditch), excavate, extract jùn 氵 夋 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.   汛 JLPT no HSK high water, flood, to sprinkle water xùn 氵 飛 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 JLPT no HSK Bohai Sea 渤海 (coast close to Beijing) bó 氵 力 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 JLPT no HSK name of a river fén 氵 分 Left: water 氵, right: to divide 分 (... with the sword 刀 in 8 八 pieces) The water is divided in this river.   涎 JLPT no HSK saliva, shamelessly xián 氵 延 Left: water 氵, right: spread, extend 延 (This movement 廴 is correct 正 for: spreading or extending) Water that can spread, is: saliva.   渍 JLPT no HSK to soak, penetrate, to be stained, floodwater zì 氵 责 Left: water 氵, right: responsibility 责 (Growing plants and money 贝/貝 mean responsibility) Water has the responsibility (= property) that it can soak.   沂 JLPT no HSK Yi River, Shandong yí 氵 斤 Left: water 氵, right: axe 斤 The water of an axe is the Yi-River.   浒 JLPT no HSK shore, bank of a river hǔ 氵 讠 午 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 JLPT no HSK Zhang river in Fujian zhāng 氵 章 Left: water 氵, right: medal 章 (Get up 立 early 早 to get a medal.) The water with a medal: The Zhang-river.   湃 JLPT no HSK sound of waves, surge, overwhelming, stormily pài 氵 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 JLPT no HSK mountain stream, brook jiàn 氵 间 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.   涣 JLPT no HSK disperse expansive (of river), spread huàn 氵 奂 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.   湍 JLPT no HSK to rush (of water), rapid tuān 氵 耑 Left: water 氵, right: concentrated 耑 (like a mountain 山 of beards 而) The water is concentrated in a water's rush/rapid.   涸 JLPT no HSK to dry, to dry up hé 氵 固 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.   汕 JLPT no HSK reuse (trap for fish) shàn 氵 山 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 JLPT no HSK extensive, widespread, pervading, vast pǔ 氵 尃 Left: water 氵, right: to announce 尃 (just now 甫 with skillful hands 寸) The water announces that it is extensively widespread.   藻 JLPT no HSK seaweed, aquatic grasses, elegant zǎo 艹 氵 喿 品 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.   涟 JLPT no HSK ripple, tearful, flowing water, weeping lián 氵 连 车 Left: water 氵, right: to link, combine 连 (Vehicles 车/車 and 'movement' 辶 are linked.) Water can combine to rippling waves or weeping.   瀛 JLPT no HSK ocean yíng 氵 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.   泞 JLPT no HSK muddy, miry, stagnant nìng 氵 宁 丁 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 JLPT no HSK slush, mud nào 氵 卓 车 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.   浦 JLPT no HSK river bank, shore pǔ 氵 甫 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.
Radicals are shown here that are similar either in appearance or meaning.
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