IDENTITY
水shuǐwater
HSK 1Top 39
CORE MEANING
water
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.waterHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 水water radical (shuǐ)
- strokes
- 4
- Structure
- single pictograph
- IDS sequence
- ⿲㇇亅⿺乀丿
USAGE
Common words
水果shuǐguǒfruit
水平shuǐpínglevel
海水hǎishuǐseawater
Graded examples
我每天喝很多水。Wǒ měitiān hē hěn duō shuǐ.HSK1
I drink a lot of water every day.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 永
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Three flowing strokes — a stream of water.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #39
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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