水

水 U+6C34, 水 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C34 ← 氳 CJK Unified Ideographs 氵 →

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Stroke order

Stroke order

• 氵 (when used as a left radical)
• 氺 (when used in characters such as 泰)

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Radical 85 水

水 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 水 (E), four-corner 1223₀, composition ⿰𰛄⿺㇏丿(GJKV) or ⿰㇇𰛅(GJKV) or ⿰𰛄⿱丿㇏(HT))

2. Kangxi radical #85, ⽔.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/水
• 㲻, 冰, 𪢿, 𫰖, 㝽, 𡵰, 𢗷, 𤝎, 阥, 𨑾, 𪱹, 㲑, 𤆩, 𤕯, 𡯑, 𬍖, 𦙙, 𤱄, 砅, 𧦋, 𧺵, 𫒎, 𩖱, 𬵆, 𣍤, 𩾼
• 氽, 𠕽, 𡉺, 尿, 𢇤, 𦬭, 𭥚, 𣏶, 𭻅, 㽷, 泵, 𥝸, 𥤼, 𥫸, 𨋈, 𨠊, 㞙, 𩂍, 𤦗, 𦷸, 𠪥, 𥴠, 𢦹, 閖
• 呇, 坔, 𢗨, 𤆲, 畓, 𭖜, 𧥿, 𨋉, 𨠆, 𨥗, 𭪳, 𬠤, 凼, 囦, 䠌, 潁(颍), 頮(颒), 𤸄

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 603, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17083
• Dae Jaweon: page 992, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1545, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6C34

• 水 on Wikidata.Wikidata

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水 (xuix)

1. hanzi form of xuix
   • 1450, Yang Fu (楊黼), 《詞記山花——咏蒼洱境》:

     煴煊茶水㱔呼𪢂

     Boiling tea water, greeting each other.

Historical forms of the character 水
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)	Kangxi Dictionary (compiled in Qing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts	Ming typeface

Pictogram (象形) of water flowing; sometimes written as the variant 氺 (e.g., 泰, 录, and 黎). Next to a character, it is compressed and stylized into 氵 (which is unrelated to 冫).

Compare 川 (OC *kʰjon) and its variant 巛. Compare also 永 and its cognate 𠂢. See also the bottom part of 原 in its original version.

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 水 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 水 (Cantonese)
• 水 (Classical)
• 水 (Gan)
• súi (Hakka)
• cūi (Eastern Min)
• chúi (Southern Min)
• 水 (Wu)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lwi(j) (“flow; stream”) (Benedict, 1974; Coblin, 1986; Handel, 1998; Schuessler, 2007; STEDT). Cognate with Mizo lui (“stream; brook; river”), Tedim Chin (luːi³, “stream; river”), Jingpho lawi (“to flow (as water)”).

Old Chinese 水 (*lhuiʔ), as reconstructed by Schuessler, is Sino-Tibetan root's endoactive derivation with suffix *-ʔ, meaning "that which is flowing"; its voiceless initial suggests the presence of a nominalizing prefix *k- or *s-. Another derivative from the Sino-Tibetan root is possibly 泫 (winʔ, “to flow”) (minimally reconstructed).

Compare also areal etymon Proto-Mon-Khmer *lujʔ ~ luuj() ~ luəj() ~ ləəj() (“to wade; to swim”).

Alternatively, Gong (1995) reconstructs Old Chinese *hljədx and compares it to Tibetan ཆུ (chu, “water”), which STEDT derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water; liquid; bodily fluid”).

Baxter and Sagart (2014), employing evidence from the Proto-Min form of the Min colloquial variant 沝, reconstructs the latter *turʔ and thereby reconstructs Old Chinese *s.turʔ, and compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *twəj (“to flow; to suppurate”), which is likely related to *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s (“water; fluid; to soak; to be wet”) (STEDT). *s.turʔ was then followed by an Eastern dialectal variant, *s.tujʔ, which leads to Early Middle Chinese *sywijX.

Like Gong (1995), Sagart (2017) compares it to Tibetan ཆུ (chu), but he also compares it to Bodo (India) दै (dwi), Mizo tui, Proto-Karen *thejᴬ, all of which STEDT derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s. Handel deems derivations from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju or *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s unlikely because of phonological issues (STEDT).

水

2. water (Classifier: 瓶 m; 樽 c; 滴 m c; 池 m c; 盆 m c; 杯 m c)

   請給我一杯水，謝謝。 [MSC, trad.]
   请给我一杯水，谢谢。 [MSC, simp.]

   Qǐng gěi wǒ yī bēi shuǐ, xièxiè.

   A glass of water, please.

   喝水  ―  hēshuǐ  ―  to drink water

   冰水  ―  bīngshuǐ  ―  iced water

   冷水  ―  lěngshuǐ  ―  cold water

   凍水／冻水 [Cantonese]  ―  dung³ seoi²   ―  cold water

   熱水／热水  ―  rèshuǐ  ―  hot water

   開水／开水  ―  kāishuǐ  ―  boiled water

   滾水／滚水 [Cantonese]  ―  gwan² seoi²   ―  boiled water

   水族館／水族馆  ―  shuǐzúguǎn  ―  aquarium

   水彩  ―  shuǐcǎi  ―  watercolour

   水溫／水温  ―  shuǐwēn  ―  water temperature

   雨水  ―  yǔshuǐ  ―  rainwater

   海水  ―  hǎishuǐ  ―  seawater

   飲用水／饮用水  ―  yǐnyòngshuǐ  ―  drinking water

   礦泉水／矿泉水  ―  kuàngquánshuǐ  ―  mineral water

   蒸餾水／蒸馏水  ―  zhēngliúshuǐ  ―  distilled water

   水閘／水闸  ―  shuǐzhá  ―  sluice

   水力發電／水力发电  ―  shuǐlìfādiàn  ―  hydroelectricity

   碳水化合物  ―  tànshuǐhuàhéwù  ―  carbohydrate

   脫水／脱水  ―  tuōshuǐ  ―  to dehydrate; dehydration

   水中毒  ―  shuǐzhōngdú  ―  water intoxication; water poisoning

   雙氧水／双氧水  ―  shuāngyǎngshuǐ  ―  hydrogen peroxide (literally, “water with two oxygen (atoms)”)

3. liquid; potion; juice

   口水  ―  kǒushuǐ  ―  saliva

   汗水  ―  hànshuǐ  ―  sweat

   羊水  ―  yángshuǐ  ―  amniotic fluid

   香水  ―  xiāngshuǐ  ―  perfume

   眼藥水／眼药水  ―  yǎnyàoshuǐ  ―  eyedrop

4. (colloquial, chiefly Singapore, Malaysia) Synonym of 飲料／饮料 (yǐnliào, “beverage”)

   要叫什麼水？／要叫什么水？  ―  Yào jiào shénme shuǐ?  ―  What beverage do you want to order?

   欲叫什物水？ [Hokkien, trad. and simp.]

   Beh kiò sím-mi̍h chúi? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   What beverage do you want to order?

6. (archaic) river

   漢水／汉水  ―  Hànshuǐ  ―  the Han River

7. body of water

   水路  ―  shuǐlù  ―  waterway

   三面環水／三面环水  ―  sān miàn huán shuǐ  ―  to be surrounded by (bodies of) water on three sides

8. flood

   發水／发水  ―  fāshuǐ  ―  to flood

9. additional cost or income
10. (dialectal) rain
11. (Cantonese) money

    磅水 [Cantonese]  ―  bong⁶ seoi²   ―  to pay

    掠水 [Cantonese]  ―  loek^6-1 seoi²   ―  to obtain money dishonestly

12. (Cantonese) hundred dollars (Classifier: 嚿 c)

    三嚿水 [Cantonese]  ―  saam¹ gau⁶ seoi²   ―  three hundred dollars

13. (Cantonese) source of revenue (Classifier: 條／条 c)
14. (Cantonese) to fool; to deceive; to misguide
15. to swim

    水性  ―  shuǐxìng  ―  swimming ability

    • 假舟楫者，非能水也，而絕江河。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
      假舟楫者，非能水也，而绝江河。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

      From: Xunzi, c. 3^rd century BCE

      Jiǎ zhōují zhě, fēi néng shuǐ yě, ér jué jiānghé.

      One who uses a boat, despite not knowing how to swim, can nevertheless cross rivers.

16. (colloquial) lacking substance or power; worthless

    這裡的大學太水了。 [MSC, trad.]
    这里的大学太水了。 [MSC, simp.]

    Zhèlǐ de dàxué tài shuǐ le.

    The universities here are too weak.

17. Short for 划水 (huáshuǐ, “to shirk; to slack off”).
18. one of the five elements of Wu Xing (五行)
19. (colloquial) Classifier for the number of times clothing was washed.
20. Sui people

    水書／水书  ―  shuǐshū  ―  Shuishu (the traditional writing system of the Sui people)

22. a surname

• (beverage):

• (antonym(s) of “body of water”): 陸／陆