"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.

氵 character breakdown

Character component without intrinsic meaning

= : Two petals form a blossom, so let's represent ⺀ by a beautiful blossom.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

Mnemonic symbol: a scratch.

Characters with 氵 as component

man

= + : Hamlet wants to become a real han and so he has been practising boxing in the anthill's bathroom all day long. He's sweating a lot and without taking off his boxing gloves he grabs a bottle of water to quench his thirst.
Han ethnic group / Chinese (language) / the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)

= + : Hamlet wants to become a real han and so he has been practising boxing in the anthill's bathroom all day long. He's sweating a lot and without taking off his boxing gloves he grabs a bottle of water to quench his thirst.
to wash / to bathe / to develop (photo)

= + : It's shower day in the space station (Ø3)! Marie Curie (xi) and the FLOTUS (先) help wash (洗) each other using bottles of water (氵).
France / French / abbr. for 法國|法国[Fa3 guo2] / Taiwan pr. [Fa4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A lawyer's wig.

= + : Frankenstein's monster locked himself to a concrete barrel during a demonstration in the ashram, but now he's in a really unpleasant situation: the lawyer's wig he put on slipped on his face and his bottle of water rolled away, but he can't change any of it since he locked his arms into the concrete barrel.
law / method / way / to emulate / (Buddhism) dharma / (abbr. for 法家[Fa3 jia1]) the Legalists / (physics) farad (abbr. for 法拉[fa3 la1])

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A lawyer's wig.

= + : Frankenstein's monster locked himself to a concrete barrel during a demonstration in the ashram, but now he's in a really unpleasant situation: the lawyer's wig he put on slipped on his face and his bottle of water rolled away, but he can't change any of it since he locked his arms into the concrete barrel.
old variant of 法[fa3] / law

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A lawyer's wig.

= + : Frankenstein's monster locked himself to a concrete barrel during a demonstration in the ashram, but now he's in a really unpleasant situation: the lawyer's wig he put on slipped on his face and his bottle of water rolled away, but he can't change any of it since he locked his arms into the concrete barrel.
variant of 法[fa3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A lawyer's wig.

= + : Frankenstein's monster locked himself to a concrete barrel during a demonstration in the ashram, but now he's in a really unpleasant situation: the lawyer's wig he put on slipped on his face and his bottle of water rolled away, but he can't change any of it since he locked his arms into the concrete barrel.
river / CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]

= + : A river has flooded the elevator, and in the kitchen, Hamlet is floating on a bed of nails. He found a water bottle to put upside down on the nails, so he has to balance on the bottle in order to not have to sit directly on the nails. It is quite difficult to do on a rocking makeshift raft.
to live / alive / living / work / workmanship

= + : Helga Horse joined the traditional water bottle challenge and empties a bottle of water over herself in the observatory's kitchen. To raise the difficulty level, she only uses her tongue to hold the bottle.
lake / CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4]

= + : Helga Horse (hu) is doing an experiment just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). She lets the water out of a water bottle (氵) and it forms something like a ball very soon. Helga Horse then uses her Confucius beard (胡) to create a loop and let the water, through the surface tension, expand by stretching the loop. She wants to find out how far she can stretch to get a little lake (湖).
oil / fat / grease / petroleum / to apply tung oil, paint or varnish / oily / greasy / glib / cunning

= + : Maud Younger (y) is creating art in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). She is painting a picture using oil (油) paint and occasionally using water color stored in a water bottle (氵). She is nipping a cuba libre (由) and from time to time even using her drink as color for her picture.
to fill / full / filled / packed / fully / completely / quite / to reach the limit / to satisfy / satisfied / contented

= + + : Mahathma Gandhi stuffed the inside of the anthill with artificial lawn. Everyone is extremely annoyed by this packing, but as he sprinkles water out of a water bottle on the artificial lawn, it dawns on them: he smuggled taels of gold in the lawn, which slowly grow out of the lawn as he distributes the water and laughs happily. The whole anthill is soon full of golden taels.
Manchu ethnic group

= + + : Mahathma Gandhi stuffed the inside of the anthill with artificial lawn. Everyone is extremely annoyed by this packing, but as he sprinkles water out of a water bottle on the artificial lawn, it dawns on them: he smuggled taels of gold in the lawn, which slowly grow out of the lawn as he distributes the water and laughs happily. The whole anthill is soon full of golden taels.

Words with 氵

氵 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 氵

氵 currently does not appear in any sentence.