水

surname Shui

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

水 = ㇇ + 亅 + 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

水
- 丿
- 亅
- ㇏
- ㇇

丿

piě = pi + e3

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).

亅

jué = ju + e2

"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).

㇏

nà = n + a4

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

永

yǒng = yu + (e)ng3

forever / always / perpetual

永 = 丶 + 水 : Mnemonic symbol: as the advertisements tell us, diamonds are forever. I'll represent 永 with a diamond ring.

永 = 丶 + 水 : 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.

泉

quán = qu + an2

spring (small stream) / mouth of a spring / coin (archaic)

泉 = 水 + 白 : Cupid (qu) opened a hot spring (泉) in the anthill's kitchen (an2) by connecting a water fountain (水) with the anthill's heating system. To mark his hot spring as a place of peace he set up a white flag (白) at the side of the spring.

冰

bi̅ng = bi + (e)ng1

ice / CL:塊|块[kuai4] / to chill sth / (of an object or substance) to feel cold / (of a person) cold / unfriendly / (slang) methamphetamine

冰 = 冫 + 水 : Brunhilde (bi) is making some ice (冰) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). She puts lots of orange juice in a water fountain (水), throws some wooden sticks inside and adds lots of ice cubes (冰). She expects to have lots of popsicles (冫) ready soon.

冰

氷

bi̅ng = bi + (e)ng1

variant of 冰[bing1]

尿

sui̅ = su + ei1

(coll.) urine

尿

niào = ni + ao4

to urinate / urine / CL:泡[pao1]

尿 = 尸 + 水 : Nefertiti (ni) is drinking from a water fountain (水) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4), but she doesn't notice that at the same time a ghost (尸) is peeing (尿) into the water fountain.

氺

shuǐ = shu + ei3

archaic variant of 水[shui3]

氺 = 水 : As archaic symbol for an archaic character I choose the aqueduct.

氶

zhěng = zh + (e)ng3

name of a river in Shandong province / used in person's names

氶 = ㇖ + 水 : Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water from the 氶 river, which is sealed with a sickle.

James II of England (zh) wanted to take a sip from his 氶 water (水) bottle (氶) in the engine's living room ((e)ng3), but he hurt his hand with the sickle (㇖) which seals the bottle.

沓

tà = t + a4

again and again / many

沓 = 日 + 水 : Mnemonic symbol: a hot tub.

Tecumseh (t) set up the sun (日) so that it heats up a small water fountain (水) in the ashram's bathroom (a4) so that it becomes a hot tub. Tecumseh jumps out of the hot tub again and again (沓) to cool down a bit before continuing to bathe.

沓

tà = t + a4

surname Ta