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
- 水稻 rice
- 青山绿水(青山綠水) green hills and clear waters; pleasant country scene
- 混水摸鱼(混水摸魚) to fish in troubled water; to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain
- 咸水妹(鹹水妹) prostitute from Guangdong (especially one in Shanghai before the Revolution)
- 密闭式循环再呼吸水肺系统(密閉式循環再呼吸水肺系統) closed-circuit rebreather scuba (diving)
- 丰水(豐水) abundant water; high water level
- 水平轴(水平軸) horizontal shaft; horizontal axis
- 水淋淋 dripping wet
- 绿水(綠水) green water; crystal-clear water
- 水漉漉 dripping wet
- 根汁汽水 root beer
- 巴山蜀水 mountains and rivers of Sichuan
- 水鹿 sambar
- 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
- 储水管(儲水管) standpipe (firefighting water storage system for a building)
- 生活水平 living standards
- 水量 volume of water; quantity of flow
- 水火无情(水火無情) Fire and water have no mercy; forces of nature beyond human control; implacable fate
- 水牛儿(水牛兒) snail
- 含水 watery
- 漏水转浑天仪(漏水轉渾天儀) water-driven armillary sphere (Zhang Heng's famous astronomical apparatus)
- 激水之疾 the rush of a torrent
- 亲水性(親水性) hydrophilic nature
- 落水管 drainpipe; water spout
- 苦水 bitter water ; digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth ; suffering; bitter complaint
- 拖下水 to pull somebody into the water; to involve somebody in a messy business; to get somebody into trouble
- 通水 to have running water (in a house etc)
- 依山傍水 mountains on one side and water on the other
- 下水管(下水管) drainpipe
- 大水 a flood
- 冷水机组(冷水機組) chiller
- 水蛇座 Hydrus
- 滴水不漏 not one drop of water can leak out; watertight; rigorous (argument)
- 烧水壶(燒水壺) kettle
- 防水 waterproof
- 沸水 boiling water
- 眼药水(眼藥水) eye drops; eye lotion
- 水井 (water) well
- 不服水土 (of a stranger) not accustomed to the climate of a new place; not acclimatized
- 潜水夫症(潛水夫症) bends
- 洗甲水 nail polish remover
- 下水道系统(下水道系統) sewage system
- 汽水 soda; sparkling water
- 水滴 drop
Also contained in
水利部 、 广水市 、 涟水县 、 合水县 、 水门事件 、 徐水县 、 泸水县
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: 718
- 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: 7
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 水之上 (水之上) 與北宮喜盟于彭水之上 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3