水 shuǐ
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shuǐ
noun
water
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, in literary Chinese, 遠水不救近火 'distant water cannot extinguish a nearby fire', from Han Feizi's Shuo Lin Shang (DCP 'Y448'; GHC '水' 1; Kroll 2015 '水' 1, p. 425; Sun 2006, loc. 1377; Unihan '水') -
shuǐ
noun
Kangxi radical 85
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7) -
shuǐ
noun
a river
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 河流 (Kroll 2015 '水' 3; Kroll 2015 '水' 2, p. 425) -
shuǐ
noun
liquid; lotion; juice
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '水' 1, p. 425; Unihan '水') -
shuǐ
noun
a flood
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 水灾 (Kroll 2015 '水' 2, p. 425; Kroll 2015 '水' 3) -
shuǐ
verb
to swim
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '水' 4, p. 425) -
shuǐ
noun
a body of water
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 水域 (GHC '水' 4) -
shuǐ
proper noun
Shui
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (GHC '水' 6) -
shuǐ
noun
water element
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: One of the 五行 'five elements' of traditional Chinese thought (GHC '水' 5; Kroll 2015 '水' 1, p. 425; Sun 2006, loc. 1377)
Contained in
- 水资源(水資源) water resources
- 盂方水方 If the basin is square, the water in it will also be square.
- 汽水 soda; sparkling water
- 水泄不通(水洩不通) not one drop can trickle through; impenetrable (crowd, traffic)
- 液态水(液態水) liquid water (as opposed to steam or ice)
- 泅水 to swim
- 下水礼(下水禮) launching ceremony
- 糖水 syrup; sweetened water; tong sui (sweet soup)
- 死猪不怕开水烫(死豬不怕開水燙) a dead pig doesn't fear scalding water; to be unaffected (by sth); undaunted
- 漱口水 mouthwash
- 试水温(試水溫) to test the waters
- 水晶宫(水晶宮) Crystal Palace
- 泪水涟涟(淚水漣漣) in floods of tears
- 兵来将敌,水来土堰(兵來將敵,水來土堰) counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir; different situations call for different action
- 水族馆(水族館) aquarium
- 水池 a pond; a pool
- 水能源 hydroelectric power
- 水温(水溫) water temperature
- 硅酸盐水泥(硅酸鹽水泥) Portland cement
- 缩水(縮水) to shrink
- 水乡(水鄉) patchwork of waterways
- 水陆(水陸) water and land; by water and land (transport); amphibian; delicacies from land and sea
- 水晶 crystal
- 河水不犯井水 river water does not interfere with well water; Do not interfere with one another.
- 水蛇座 Hydrus
- 雨水 Yushui ; rain water ; rain
- 上水 upper reaches (of a river) ; to go upstream ; to add some water; to water (a crop etc)
- 水筲 well bucket; pail made of bamboo strips
- 汇水(匯水) remittance fee
- 须后水(須後水) aftershave
- 春江水暖鸭先知(春江水暖鴨先知) the duck is the first to know if the spring water is warm
- 枯水 scarce water; low water level
- 凫水(鳧水) to swim
- 血水 thin blood; watery blood
- 水管工人 plumber
- 涨水(漲水) rise of water level
- 自来水管(自來水管) water mains; service pipe; tap-water pipe
- 两点水(兩點水) part of a character formed with a dot and an upward stroke
- 水蛇 water snake
- 水鹿 sambar
- 水系 drainage system
- 水平轴(水平軸) horizontal shaft; horizontal axis
Also contained in
水磨沟区 、 三水区 、 大水冲了龙王庙 、 湔水 、 涞水县 、 冷水滩 、 武水 、 冷水江 、 丽水地区
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 《卷十二‧水部》 Scroll 12, Shuǐ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 717
- 卷四十二 志第十八 地理三 Volume 42 Treatises 18: Geography 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 317
- 卷四十一 志第十七 地理二 Volume 41 Treatises 17: Geography 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 213
- 卷四十四 志第二十 地理五 Volume 44 Treatises 20: Geography 5 History of Ming 明史 — count: 194
- 卷四十三 志第十九 地理四 Volume 43 Treatises 19: Geography 4 History of Ming 明史 — count: 192
- 卷六十一 志第十四 五行一上 Volume 61 Treatises 14: Five Elements 1a History of Song 宋史 — count: 180
- 卷二十五 志第六: 地理中 南京路 河北東路 河北西路 山東東路 山東西路 Volume 25 Treatises 6: Geography 2 - Nanjing Circuit, Hebei Circuit East, Hebei Circuit West, Shandong Circuit East, Shandong Circuit West History of Jin 金史 — count: 165
- 卷四十 志第十六 地理一 Volume 40 Treatises 16: Geography 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 142
- 卷二十六 志第七: 地理下 大名府路 河東北路 河東南路 京兆府路 鳳翔路 鄜延路 慶原路 臨洮路 Volume 26 Treatises 7: Geography 3 - Da Ming Prefecture Circuit, Hedong Circuit North, Hedong Circuit South, Jingzhao Prefecture Circuit, Fengxian Circuit, Fuyan Circuit, Qingyuan Circuit, Lintao Circuit History of Jin 金史 — count: 124
- 卷五十 志第三上: 五行一 Volume 50 Treatises 3: Five Elements 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 119
Collocations
- 水潦 (水潦) 水潦將降 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 9
- 淇水 (淇水) 淇水湯湯 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang — count: 8
- 在水 (在水) 在水一方 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧秦‧蒹葭 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qin - Jian Jia — count: 6
- 泮水 (泮水) 泮水 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 魯頌‧駉之什‧泮水 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Jiong - Pan Shui — count: 6
- 疏食水 (疏食水) 士疏食水飲 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《喪大記》 The Greater Record of Mourning Rites — count: 6
- 水饮 (水飲) 士疏食水飲 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《喪大記》 The Greater Record of Mourning Rites — count: 6
- 漷水 (漷水) 取邾田自漷水 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 5
- 水泉 (水泉) 收水泉池澤之賦 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 4
- 汶水 (汶水) 汶水湯湯 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧齊‧載驅 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qi - Bi Gou — count: 3
- 维水 (維水) 維水泱泱 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧甫田之什‧瞻彼洛矣 Minor odes of the kingdom - Fu Tian Zhi Shen - Zhan Bi Luo Yi — count: 3