"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

bubble; foam / blister / to soak; to steep; to infuse / to dawdle; to loiter / to pick up (a girl) / to get off with (a sexual partner) / classifier for occurrences of an action / classifier for number of infusions
hidden / secret / latent / to hide / to conceal / to submerge / to dive

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) emptied her water bottle (氵) and is aiming to replenish (替) it in the anthill's kitchen (an2). Secretly (潜) she fills her water bottle by submerging (潜) it in a big water-filled flower pot.
clean

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) arrives just inside the elevator's kitchen (e2) to find a huge mess to clean up (洁). The giant (吉) has casually thrown mandarins, flutes and bottles of water (氵) everywhere. With so many things not going her way, she could really use a bit of good luck! (吉)
clear / deep (of water) / swift

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) found that Liu Sanjie (刘) emptied a magical water bottle (氵) in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). They're both standing waist-deep (浏) in very clear (浏) water.
surname Wang

= + : Willy Walrus (w) broke the last water bottle (氵) in front of the anglepod (ang1). Seeing the puddle (汪) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (王) is so desperate about the very last water bottle being wasted that he gets watery eyes.
expanse of water / ooze / (onom.) bark / classifier for liquids: pool, puddle

= + : Willy Walrus (w) broke the last water bottle (氵) in front of the anglepod (ang1). Seeing the puddle (汪) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (王) is so desperate about the very last water bottle being wasted that he gets watery eyes.
pool / pond / (of metals etc) luster / favor or beneficence / damp / moist

= + + + : Zorro (z) dropped a whole case of water bottles (氵) in the elevator's kitchen (e2) and they all break. He notices how the water forms a small pond (泽) which heats up in the summer's heat, making the air humid (泽). He first marks the danger zone by ramming dinosaur bones (丨) in the ground and sticking red boxing gloves (又) on top of them. Additionally he connects all these poles with wire and capacitors (二) to make an electric fence. He then starts to enjoy his very private hot spring by floating in the pond.
abbr. for Zhejiang 浙江 province in east China
variant of 浙[Zhe4]
grand / vast (water)

= + : A grand (浩), vast (浩) puddle has formed from a leak in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). Hamlet (h) gets curious and wants to know exactly how vast the puddle is, so he scoops it up using a water bottle (氵). For each bottle he increments a LED counter (告) hanging on the wall above him.
shore / beach / coast / bank / to border on

= + : The water levels have risen and a beach (滨) has formed right in front of the encampment ((e)n1). Robin Hood (宾) and Brunhilde (bi) are working hard to move back the shoreline (滨) or at least to stop it moving further by scooping up the water with water bottles (氵).
to spread out / to develop / to overflow / to amplify / superfluous

= + : Maud Younger (y) is dancing on the bar in the anthill (an3), but suddenly her seven-league boots (行) cause her to run around like crazy, breaking all the water bottles (氵) and thereby having the whole inn overflow (衍) with water.
to dissolve / soluble

= + : Rachel Rhinoceros (ru) is making a smoothie in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). She put her food in a food container (容) and pours a bottle of water (氵) over it. Because her food is soluble (溶) the mix turns into a slurry.

Words with 氵

氵 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 氵

氵 currently does not appear in any sentence.