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

• 寻水术(尋水術) dowsing
• 山青水灵(山青水靈) green mountains and vivacious waters; lush and lively scenery
• 洪水期 flood season
• 薑水 ginger tea
• 水注 to brew
• 吸水 absorbent
• 水害 flood damage
• 竹篮打水(竹籃打水) using a wicker basket to draw water; wasted effort
• 爬山涉水 to climb mountains and wade rivers; to make a long and difficult journey
• 退水 to divert water; to drain
• 去光水 nail polish remover
• 血浓于水(血濃於水) blood is thicker than water; family ties are closer than social relations
• 泼水节(潑水節) Songkran
• 泼水(潑水) to sprinkle; to spill water
• 液态水(液態水) liquid water (as opposed to steam or ice)
• 汙水 wastewater
• 热水澡(熱水澡) hot bath or shower
• 水准仪(水準儀) level (device to determine horizontal); spirit level; surveyor's level
• 学术水平(學術水平) academic level
• 生粉水 starch solution (cooking)
• 眼药水(眼藥水) eye drops; eye lotion
• 水准(水準) level (of achievement etc); standard; level (surveying)
• 海水养殖(海水養殖) aquaculture
• 大地水准面(大地水準面) geoid
• 栉水母(櫛水母) comb jellies (Ctenophora)
• 硬水 hard water
• 水菖蒲 Acorus calamus; sweet sedge or sweet flag
• 水泵 water pump
• 胶水(膠水) glue
• 家庭汙水 domestic wastewater
• 改水 to improve water quality
• 防水 waterproof
• 中水 recycled water
• 水中摄影(水中攝影) underwater photography
• 水烟(水煙) shredded tobacco for water pipes
• 一衣带水(一衣帶水) (separated only by) a narrow strip of water
• 水雉 pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus)
• 水客 smuggler
• 汽水 soda; sparkling water
• 流水不腐 flowing water does not rot
• 引水入墙(引水入牆) to lead the water through the wall; to ask for trouble

Also contained in

沅水 、 水磨沟区 、 赤水市 、 二水乡 、 泸水 、 洣水 、 融水 、 淝水 、 邻水县 、 都水监

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: 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
• 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
• 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
• 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