"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]
氵
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⺀
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㇀
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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.
to wash / to squander / to sweep away / to move / to shake / dissolute / pond
荡
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艹
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汤
:
Don Quixote (d) messed up his artificial lawn (艹) with soup (汤) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). After washing (荡) and shaking (荡) the lawn he checks with an oscilloscope (荡) to see if there are still soup particles left on the lawn.
荡
=
艹
+
汤
:
Don Quixote (d) messed up his artificial lawn (艹) with soup (汤) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). After washing (荡) and shaking (荡) the lawn he checks with an oscilloscope (荡) to see if there are still soup particles left on the lawn.
to scald / to burn (by scalding) / to blanch (cooking) / to heat (sth) up in hot water / to perm / to iron / scalding hot
烫
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汤
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火
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Tecumseh (t) is cooking a soup (汤) on an open fire (火) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). To give the soup a special flavor for a minute he blanches (烫) a flat iron (烫) in the soup.
Tang Yulin (1871-1937), minor warlord in northeast China, sometime governor of Chengde 承德, mostly poor in battle but very successful at accumulating personal wealth
water roux (aka tangzhong), a gelatinous paste made by heating a mixture of flour and water, used in breadmaking to produce a softer, fluffier loaf (loanword from Japanese 湯種 yudane)
the Tang and Wu Revolts: the overthrow (c. 1600 BC) of the Xia Dynasty by the first king, Tang 商湯|商汤[Shang1 Tang1], of the Shang Dynasty, and the overthrow (c. 1046 BC) of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou Dynasty founder, King Wu 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2]