水
surname Shui
water / river / liquid / beverage / additional charges or income / (of clothes) classifier for number of washes
水
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㇇
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亅
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丿
+
㇏
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Sheldon Shrimp just climbed the Eiffel Tower. He's really thirsty, so he's glad to find a water fountain. After he quenches his thirst, he also finds a snack: A banana is swimming in the water. He never ate a banana before, so he tries a mix of different methods: Putting on a fake beak to pick on the banana, holding it with a finger and peeling it with a crowbar.
水 character breakdown
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).
"vertical stroke with hook" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 6) / see also 豎鉤|竖钩[shu4 gou1]
Mnemonic symbol: 亅 looks like a crowbar. Zeus (ju) is bored and presses all the buttons next to the elevator kitchen's (e2) door with his crowbar (亅).
Right-falling stroke
Mnemonic symbol: this one looks like a finger.
Napoleon (n) is giving you the finger (㇏) in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
Napoleon (n) is giving you the finger (㇏) in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
Character component without intrinsic meaning
This one looks like a beak.
Characters with 水 as component
forever / always / perpetual
永
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丶
+
水
:
Yu the Great just got the most romantic proposal ever! In engine, somebody prepared a water fountain and had a diamond ring floating on a petal leaf float over to her. Unfortunately Yu the Great doesn't know who the ring is from, as her lover drowned in the water fountain earlier that day.
spring (small stream) / mouth of a spring / coin (archaic)
ice / CL:塊|块[kuai4] / to chill sth / (of an object or substance) to feel cold / (of a person) cold / unfriendly / (slang) methamphetamine
variant of 冰[bing1]
rattan / cane / vine
to urinate / urine / CL:泡[pao1]
(coll.) urine
archaic variant of 水[shui3]
name of a river in Shandong province / used in person's names
Words with 水
lit. as clear as water (idiom) / fig. (of officials etc) honest and incorruptible
lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom) / fig. to be impartial
see 三個和尚沒水喝|三个和尚没水喝[san1 ge4 he2 shang5 mei2 shui3 he1]