淮

name of a river

淮 character breakdown

淮
- 氵
  - ⺀
    - 丶
  - ㇀
- 隹
  - 一
  - 住
    - 主
      - 丶
      - 王
        
        一
        
        土
        
        一
        
        十
        
        一
        
        丨
    - 亻
      - 丨
      - 丿

"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]

氵 = ⺀ + ㇀ : 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.

隹

zhui̅ = zhu + ei1

short-tailed bird

隹 = 住 + 一 : A sparrow. Julian Giant Squid often visits the sparrows living in front of the Eiffel Tower, and plays his flute for them.

Characters with 淮 as component

准

準

zhǔn = zhu + (e)n3

accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para-

准 = 冫 + 隹 : Julian Giant Squid is just about to eat a popsicle inside of the encampment, but in the last moment a sparrow snatches the popsicle away and shouts that it is forbidden to eat inside of the encampment.

汇

匯

huì = hu + ei4

to remit / to converge (of rivers) / to exchange

汇 = 匚 + 氵 : Helga Horse (hu) brought a collection (汇) of water bottles (氵) and a metal box (匚) to the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). Each bottle contains water from a different river. Finally the moment she's been waiting for arrives: As she empties each bottle into the metal box, she converges (汇) the water of all these rivers at once.