surname Shui
water / river / liquid / beverage / additional charges or income / (of clothes) classifier for number of washes

= + + 丿 + : 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).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

This one looks like a beak.

Characters with 水 as component

go with current / mucus / spittle
phonetic dap or dābo / rice paddy (Korean gugja)
cross stream by stepping on stones

Words with 水

cold water / unboiled water / fig. not yet ready (of plans)
dividing range / drainage divide / (fig.) dividing line / watershed
Minamata disease (neurological disease caused by mercury poisoning due to industrial pollution in Japan, first identified in 1956)
Minamata disease (mercury poisoning found in Southern Japan in 1956)
to discharge water / to appear out of the water / to break the surface
water outlet / drainage outlet
as a lotus flower breaking the surface (idiom); surpassingly beautiful (of young lady's face or old gentleman's calligraphy)
Lengshuitan district of Yongzhou city 永州市[Yong3 zhou1 shi4], Hunan
Lengshuitan district of Yongzhou city 永州市[Yong3 zhou1 shi4], Hunan
varnish (loanword)

Sentences with 水

zhè
shì
yǔ
wáng
zhì
shuǐ
shí