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

• 坏水(壞水) evil tricks
• 浇冷水(澆冷水) to pour cold water; to discourage
• 水文 hydrology
• 咸水湖(鹹水湖) salt lake
• 分水岭(分水嶺) dividing range; drainage divide; dividing line; watershed
• 水系 drainage system
• 水土保持 soil conservation
• 溺水 to drown
• 水道口 mouth of sewer
• 一头雾水(一頭霧水) to be confused; to be baffled
• 出水口 water outlet; drainage outlet
• 薑水 ginger tea
• 盐水(鹽水) Yanshui
• 滴水石穿 dripping water penetrates the stone; constant perseverance yields success; You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up.
• 修水利 water conservancy; irrigation works
• 水蛇座 Hydrus
• 水仙 daffodil ; legendary aquatic immortal
• 浮出水面 to float up; to become evident; to surface; to appear
• 中度性肺水肿(中度性肺水腫) toxic pulmonary edema
• 水稻 rice
• 水滴 drop
• 抽水马桶(抽水馬桶) flush toilet
• 卤水(鹵水) brine; bittern; marinade
• 水门汀(水門汀) cement
• 万水千山只等闲(萬水千山只等閒) thousands of rivers and mountains are barriers slight
• 水温表(水溫表) engine temperature gauge; coolant temperature gauge
• 水冰 water ice (i.e. frozen H2O)
• 水位 water level
• 紫水晶 amethyst
• 排水渠 drainage
• 水军(水軍) navy
• 逆水 against the current; upstream
• 饮水(飲水) drinking water
• 水到渠成 where water flows a channel will form
• 水能载舟，亦能覆舟(水能載舟，亦能覆舟) water may keep the boat afloat but may also sink it; the people can support a regime or overturn it; if sth is used properly, one can benefit from it, otherwise it can do harm
• 普通话水平测试(普通話水平測試) Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994
• 汽泡水 soda water
• 水基 water-based
• 一潭死水 a pool of stagnant water; stagnant or listless condition
• 丰水(豐水) abundant water; high water level
• 海水倒灌 saltwater intrusion
• 水深火热(水深火熱) deep water and scorching fire; abyss of suffering
• 二水货(二水貨) used goods; second hand goods

Also contained in

舞水端里 、 习水县 、 泥佛不渡水 、 清水县 、 水彩 、 白水县 、 丽水 、 涞水县

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: 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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