水
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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㇏
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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
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水
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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
name of a river in Shandong province / used in person's names
again and again / many
Words with 水
upper reaches (of a river) / to go upstream / to add some water / to water (a crop etc)
Sandu Shuizu autonomous county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州[Qian2 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou
name of "water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85) / see also 氵[shui3]
the ideal is to be like water (which benefits all living things and does not struggle against them) (quotation from the "Book of Dao" 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1])
name of "water" radical 氵[shui3] in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85)
lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom) / fig. everybody's business is nobody's business / (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)