"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

wave / ripple / storm / surge

= + : Before entering observatory every visitor has to take off their shoes, so there are a lot of leather shoes (皮) in front of the observatory (o1). Beelzebub (b) cannot miss the opportunity to make a huge wave (波) by pouring his water bottle (氵) and to flush away all the shoes.
Poland / Polish / abbr. for 波蘭|波兰[Bo1 lan2]

= + : Before entering observatory every visitor has to take off their shoes, so there are a lot of leather shoes (皮) in front of the observatory (o1). Beelzebub (b) cannot miss the opportunity to make a huge wave (波) by pouring his water bottle (氵) and to flush away all the shoes.
gradual / gradually

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) didn't dispose of her empty water bottles (氵) for a long time. Instead, she just hoarded them in the anthill's bathroom (an4). Today she wants to get rid of the bottles: step by step (渐), little by little (渐) she cuts them down using a lawn mower (斩).
to imbue
see 可汗[ke4 han2], 汗國|汗国[han2 guo2]
perspiration / sweat / CL:滴[di1],頭|头[tou2],身[shen1] / to be speechless (out of helplessness, embarrassment etc) (Internet slang used as an interjection)

= + : Hamlet is sweating a lot in the anthill's bathroom. He ate hot and spicy dried chilies and even a bottle of water can't help to quench his thirst.
pond / reservoir / moat
cave / hole / zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Doggy Dog (du) finds two twins (同) have fallen down the cave (洞) in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). He immediately begins to dig a tunnel to bring them a bottle of water (氵) until more help arrives.
ditch / gutter / groove / gully / ravine / CL:道[dao4]

= + : In front of the outhouse (ou1) Guy Fawkes (g) drew (勾) a photo-realistic comic (勾) of an open gully (沟) on the floor. The people are afraid to step onto it because it looks so real. They only start to believe Guy Fawkes that it's not as he spills a bottle of water (氵) over his chalk painting.
variant of 污[wu1]

= + : It looks like a dumping ground in front of the space station (Ø1). Willy Walrus (w) and the lucky leprechaun (亏) decided to get rid of the pollution (污) and start collecting all the empty water bottles (氵) floating around.
dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth

= + : It looks like a dumping ground in front of the space station (Ø1). Willy Walrus (w) and the lucky leprechaun (亏) decided to get rid of the pollution (污) and start collecting all the empty water bottles (氵) floating around.
desert / unconcerned

= + : The desert (漠) is advancing into observatory's bathroom (o4), but Mozart (莫) and Mahatma Gandhi (m) are very unconcerned (漠) because they stockpiled a lot of water bottles (氵).

Words with 氵

氵 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 氵

氵 currently does not appear in any sentence.