"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

to bleach
elegant / polished

= + : Pocahontas (pi) visits the aorta's bathroom (ao4) to see the world's most beautiful (漂) water bottle (氵). With her ticket (票) still in her hand, she gazes at this one amazing polished (漂) elegant (漂) bottle.
to float / to drift
surname Tang
soup / hot or boiling water / decoction of medicinal herbs / water in which sth has been boiled

= 𠃓 + : Tecumseh (t) is cooking a soup (汤) in front of the anglepod (ang1). First he boils a bottle of water (氵), then he adds Icarus' wings (𠃓).
rushing current
granule / hoarse / raspy / sand / powder / CL:粒[li4] / abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is selling bottles (氵) in front of the ashram (a1). Smiley (少) comes round because thon is very thirsty and buys a bottle, just to find out that it contains only sand (沙).
to register / to annotate / note / comment

= + : Julian Giant Squid and the lord are very concentrated on a game they are playing in the space station's bathroom. Each of them has a bottle of water, and they are taking turns to pour the water in the other one's bottle, which is not that easy at zero gravity.
to inject / to pour into / to concentrate / to pay attention / stake (gambling) / classifier for sums of money / variant of 註|注[zhu4]

= + : Julian Giant Squid and the lord are very concentrated on a game they are playing in the space station's bathroom. Each of them has a bottle of water, and they are taking turns to pour the water in the other one's bottle, which is not that easy at zero gravity.
only used in 濟濟|济济[ji3 ji3]
to cross a river / to aid or relieve / to be of help

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) accidentally knocked over the only water supply bottle (氵) In the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and now she's in big trouble. She uses the empty bottle as a drum to call for help (济), but it is of no use; she would need a gong instead. Unfortunately the drum is ready, but the gong is not (齐).
used in place names associated with the Ji River 濟水|济水[Ji3 Shui3] / surname Ji
used in 濟濟|济济[ji3 ji3]
wave / breaker / unrestrained / dissipated / to stroll / to ramble

= + : In the past, waves (浪) used to break (浪) out of the anglepod's toilets (ang4) in an unrestrained (浪) way and dissipate (浪) through the while temple complex. But one day, Sir Lancelot (l) saw this misery and decided to help. He put up wave breakers (浪) which guide the waves into bottles of water (氵) so that the water can be poured back into the toilet. The high temple priest was so thankful that he gave Lancelot a thank you card (良).

Words with 氵

氵 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 氵

氵 currently does not appear in any sentence.