to splash / to spill / rough and coarse / brutish

= + : Pinocchio (p) celebrates 泼水节 in front of the observatory (o1). He dips his long hair (发) into a bottle of water (氵) and shakes his head after pulling his hair out again, thereby splashing (泼) water on everybody nearby.

泼 character breakdown

"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) enjoys a bottle of water (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's living room (ei3). The got the water by scratching (㇀) a blossom (⺀) and catching the leaking dew in a bottle.
to send out / to show (one's feeling) / to issue / to develop / to make a bundle of money / classifier for gunshots (rounds)
hair / Taiwan pr. [fa3]

= + : Frankenstein wants to eat lunch in the ashram's bathroom, but wearing boxing gloves, he's unable to unwind that one long, red hair from his forks.

Characters with 泼 as component

泼 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 泼

lively / vivacious / brisk / active / (chemistry) reactive
shrew / vixen
to make an unreasonable scene

Sentences with 泼

泼 currently does not appear in any sentence.