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; 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)
4. shuǐ noun liquid; lotion; juice
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '水' 1; Unihan '水')
5. shuǐ noun a flood
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 水灾 (Kroll 2015 '水' 2; Kroll 2015 '水' 3)
6. shuǐ verb to swim
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '水' 4)
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; FGS translation standard: water (GHC '水' 5; Kroll 2015 '水' 1; Sun 2006, loc. 1377)

Contained in

• 下水道 sewer
• 地下水 groundwater
• 喝凉水都塞牙(喝涼水都塞牙) to be out of luck
• 墨水瓶架 inkstand
• 水污染 water pollution
• 水上飞板(水上飛板) flyboard
• 水到渠成 where water flows a channel will form
• 查水表 checking the water meter
• 芙蓉出水 lotus rises from the water; to blossom (of poem or art)
• 水痘 chickenpox; Varicella zoster (med.)
• 柠檬水(檸檬水) lemonade
• 水獭(水獺) an otter
• 酒水饮料(酒水飲料) drink (on a menu)
• 水玉 crystal
• 橘子水 orangeade; orange squash
• 二水货(二水貨) used goods; second hand goods
• 淡水鱼(淡水魚) freshwater fish
• 抗水 waterproof; water resistant
• 一夜露水 one-night stand; ephemeral
• 废水(廢水) waste water; drain water; effluent ; waste water; drain water; effluent
• 抽水站 water pumping station
• 口水歌 bubblegum pop song; cover song
• 口水鸡(口水雞) steamed chicken with chili sauce
• 水位 water level
• 水文 hydrology
• 黑水城 [ruins of] Heishui Town
• 文化水平 educational level
• 排水 to drain
• 钢筋水泥(鋼筋水泥) reinforced concrete
• 水利工程 hydraulic engineering
• 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
• 水利 water conservancy; irrigation works
• 逆水行舟 a boat going against the current; you must work harder
• 枯水期 period of low water level (winter in north China)
• 水壶(水壺) a pitcher
• 薪水 salary
• 风水先生(風水先生) feng shui master; geomancer; stock figure in folk tales, as a wise adviser or a charlatan
• 水滴石穿 dripping water penetrates the stone; constant perseverance yields success; You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up.
• 排水管 drainpipe; waste pipe

Also contained in

汴水 、 水部 、 沔水 、 云水僧 、 泗水 、 天水 、 黑水县 、 水经 、 四十里水 、 农林水产省 、 黑水靺鞨 、 白水羌

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: 716
• 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: 178
• 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: 143
• 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
• 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: 8
• 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: 8
• 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
• 水在 (水在) 淇水在右 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧竹竿 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Zhu Gan — 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: 4