水 shuǐ

1. 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')
2. shuǐ noun Kangxi radical 85
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
3. 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)
4. shuǐ noun liquid; lotion; juice
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '水' 1, p. 425; Unihan '水')
5. 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)
6. shuǐ verb to swim
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '水' 4, p. 425)
7. shuǐ noun a body of water
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 水域 (GHC '水' 4)
8. shuǐ proper noun Shui
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (GHC '水' 6)
9. 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

• 水饺(水餃) boiled dumpling
• 水下 underwater; submarine
• 水刑逼供 water-boarding
• 水蒲苇莺(水蒲葦鶯) sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
• 根汁汽水 root beer
• 清水墙(清水牆) unplastered masonry wall
• 脱水(脫水) dehydrated ; water content ; to wring; to dry out with a machine
• 液态水(液態水) liquid water (as opposed to steam or ice)
• 引水工程 water-induction engineering; irrigation engineering
• 水质(水質) water quality
• 污水 sewage
• 点水不漏(點水不漏) not one drop of water leaks; thoughtful and completely rigorous; watertight
• 人不可貌相，海水不可斗量 you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot
• 镪水(鏹水) strong acid
• 水质污染(水質污染) water pollution
• 潜水(潛水) to dive; to go under water; lurker (Internet slang for somebody who reads forum posts but never replies)
• 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
• 分水岭(分水嶺) dividing range; drainage divide; dividing line; watershed
• 进水口(進水口) water inlet
• 滴水 water drop; dripping water ; eaves
• 重水生产(重水生產) heavy water production
• 流水帐(流水帳) day-to-day account; current account
• 口水鸡(口水雞) steamed chicken with chili sauce
• 在水中沚 on an islet in the stream
• 清汤寡水(清湯寡水) meager fare; (fig.) insipid; colorless
• 热水澡(熱水澡) hot bath or shower
• 山穷水尽(山窮水盡) mountain and river exhausted; at the end of the line; nowhere to go
• 放水屁 to shart
• 有水 supplied with water (of a house)
• 苏打水(蘇打水) soda water
• 水至清则无鱼，人至察则无徒(水至清則無魚，人至察則無徒) water that is too clear has no fish, and one who is too severe has no friends
• 泅水 to swim
• 梳打水 soda water
• 风力水车(風力水車) wind-powered waterwheel
• 水暖工 plumber; heating engineer
• 水害 flood damage
• 口水歌 bubblegum pop song; cover song
• 水平尺 spirit level
• 山明水秀 verdant hills and limpid water; enchanting scenery
• 进水(進水) to have water get in (one's ear, shoes etc); to get flooded; inflow of water

Also contained in

二水乡 、 椆水 、 水俣市 、 溇水 、 明水 、 流水线 、 山水诗 、 德基水库 、 赤水河 、 盐水镇 、 习水

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: 208
• 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: 164
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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