to rinse one's mouth with water / to gargle
variant of 漱[shu4]

漱 character breakdown

to suck / to drink

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a drinking bottle, one of those where you have to suck to drink. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) finds a drinking bottle (欶) in the observatory's bathroom (o4) over a bundle of firewood (束). There is a small fire to keep the bottle's content warm. Sheldon doesn't hesitate, grabs the bottle and empties it, sucking (欶) and drinking (欶) the warm beverage. He carelessly throws an IOU note (欠) towards the bundle of firewood, but it almost instantly touches the fire and burns to ashes.
"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.

Characters with 漱 as component

漱 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 漱

to rinse one's mouth / to gargle
see 枕石漱流[zhen3 shi2 shu4 liu2]
to live a hermit's life (in seclusion) / a frugal life (idiom)
Liang Shuming (1893-1988), modern philosopher and teacher in the neo-Confucian tradition
to wash the face and rinse the mouth
to rinse the mouth and wash the face
to rinse one's mouth with water / to gargle
to rinse one's mouth with river water / (fig.) to live a hermit's life
Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916), one of the first modern Japanese novelists

Sentences with 漱

漱 currently does not appear in any sentence.