swimming / to swim

= + : Yu the Great (yu) is swimming (泳) through a sea of diamond rings (永) inside of the engine ((e)ng3). It is very exhausting, so she often has to take sips from her water bottle (氵).

泳 character breakdown

"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.
forever / always / perpetual

= + : 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.

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

Characters with 泳 as component

泳 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 泳

swimming / to swim
swimming pond
freestyle swimming
electrophoresis
Kim Young-sam (1927-2015), South Korean politician, president 1993-1998
to swim naked; to skinny-dip

Sentences with 泳

泳 currently does not appear in any sentence.