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

• 水钹(水鈸) splash cymbal (drum kit component)
• 水坑 a puddle; a sump
• 排水口 plughole; drainage hole
• 含水量 moisture content
• 上水 upper reaches (of a river) ; to go upstream ; to add some water; to water (a crop etc)
• 淹水 to be flooded
• 贴水(貼水) agio (charge for changing currency); premium
• 血浓于水(血濃於水) blood is thicker than water; family ties are closer than social relations
• 水果 fruit
• 水工 a person who worked on water projects
• 借水行舟 to make use of water for navigating a boat; to use external capital for a business
• 大力水手 Popeye
• 喷水壶(噴水壺) watering can; sprinkling can
• 水袖 flowing sleeves (part of theatrical costume)
• 顺水(順水) with the current
• 水波 a wave; a ripple
• 鱼水情(魚水情) close relationship as between fish and water
• 凉水(涼水) cold water
• 药水(藥水) medicine in liquid form; lotion
• 水田芥 watercress
• 水萝卜(水蘿蔔) summer radish (the small red kind)
• 排水孔 plughole; drainage hole
• 硝镪水(硝鏹水) nitric acid
• 水桶 bucket
• 水蛇座 Hydrus
• 水刑 water-boarding (torture)
• 舀水 to bail (i.e. scoop water)
• 耐水性 waterproof
• 长流水，不断线(長流水，不斷線) continuous and patient effort
• 山高水险(山高水險) the mountains are high and the torrents swift; to undertake an arduous task or journey
• 水轮(水輪) waterwheel; millwheel
• 排水渠 drainage
• 混水墙(混水牆) plastered masonry wall
• 水冰 water ice (i.e. frozen H2O)
• 水米 food and drink
• 羊水 amniotic fluid
• 天那水 paint thinner
• 涎水 saliva
• 水利家 water manager; hydraulic engineer
• 盈盈秋水 clear autumn water; a woman's tears
• 重水 heavy water

Also contained in

𬇙水 、 秀水市场 、 汝水 、 冷水滩区 、 眉山水陆 、 水原 、 合水 、 淮水 、 水经 、 浠水

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: 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: 166
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 水浆 (水漿) 水漿不入於口者七日 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I — count: 3