"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.

氵 character breakdown

Character component without intrinsic meaning

= : Two petal leaves form a blossom, so let's represent ⺀ by a beautiful blossom.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

Mnemonic symbol: a scratch.

Characters with 氵 as component

Han ethnic group / Chinese (language) / the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)

= + : Hamlet wants to become a real han and so he has been practising boxing in the anthill's bathroom all day long. He's sweating a lot and without taking off his boxing gloves he grabs a bottle of water to quench his thirst.
man

= + : Hamlet wants to become a real han and so he has been practising boxing in the anthill's bathroom all day long. He's sweating a lot and without taking off his boxing gloves he grabs a bottle of water to quench his thirst.
drowned / to end / to die / to inundate
(negative prefix for verbs) / have not / not

= + : Mahatma Gandhi is being carried out of the Eiffel Tower, and he just passed the entrance. He is not allowed to enter, because he has no money. He begs to be allowed to enter and tries to trade a bottle of water and a halberd for a ticket.
(negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
steam / vapor

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) conducts an experiment in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). She attached an empty balloon (气) to a water bottle (氵) and uses a lighter to make the water boil. Subsequently the water becomes water vapor (汽) and fills the balloon, enabling the queen to estimate the vapor volume.
to wash / to bathe / to develop (photo)

= + : It's shower day in the space station (Ø3)! Marie Curie (xi) and the FLOTUS (先) help wash (洗) each other using bottles of water (氵).
thirsty

= + : Karl Marx (k) is really thirsty (渴) in the elevator (e3), where he finds a water bottle (氵) vending machine. The water is free, but attached to the machine he finds a quiz wheel (曷): only when he is able to answer five questions in a row he will get a bottle of water.
wine (esp. rice wine) / liquor / spirits / alcoholic beverage / CL:杯[bei1],瓶[ping2],罐[guan4],桶[tong3],缸[gang1]

= + : The rooster and Maud Younger are downing some baijiu in the outhouse. Maud Younger doesn't notice though that the rooster is hiding a bottle of water behind him and every time when Maud is not looking he replaces his booze with water.
France / French / abbr. for 法國|法国[Fa3 guo2] / Taiwan pr. [Fa4]

= + : Frankenstein's monster locked himself to a concrete barrel during a demonstration in the ashram, but now he's in a really unpleasant situation: the lawyer's wig he put on slipped on his face and his bottle of water rolled away, but he can't change any of it since he locked his arms into the concrete barrel.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A lawyer's wig.
law / method / way / to emulate / (Buddhism) dharma / (abbr. for 法家[Fa3 jia1]) the Legalists / (physics) farad (abbr. for 法拉[fa3 la1])

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A lawyer's wig.

= + : Frankenstein's monster locked himself to a concrete barrel during a demonstration in the ashram, but now he's in a really unpleasant situation: the lawyer's wig he put on slipped on his face and his bottle of water rolled away, but he can't change any of it since he locked his arms into the concrete barrel.
variant of 法[fa3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A lawyer's wig.

= + : Frankenstein's monster locked himself to a concrete barrel during a demonstration in the ashram, but now he's in a really unpleasant situation: the lawyer's wig he put on slipped on his face and his bottle of water rolled away, but he can't change any of it since he locked his arms into the concrete barrel.
old variant of 法[fa3] / law

= + : Frankenstein's monster locked himself to a concrete barrel during a demonstration in the ashram, but now he's in a really unpleasant situation: the lawyer's wig he put on slipped on his face and his bottle of water rolled away, but he can't change any of it since he locked his arms into the concrete barrel.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A lawyer's wig.
surname Hai

= + : Due to the runaway greenhouse effect, the oceans have risen and the airplane has been flooded. To do his daily workout, Hamlet has to do a handstand on two water bottles and do his push-ups this way.

Words with 氵

氵 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 氵

氵 currently does not appear in any sentence.