水

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Alternative forms 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Han character 1.3.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Hanzi 2.3 Noun 3 Japanese 3.1 Etymology 1 3.1.1 Noun 3.1.1.1 Derived terms 3.2 Etymology 2 3.2.1 Noun 3.2.2 Kanji 3.2.2.1 Readings 3.2.2.2 Compounds 3.2.3 Derived terms 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.2.1 Compounds 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Alternative forms

• 氵 (when used as a left Chinese radical)

[edit] Etymology

Pictogram (象形)

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

[edit] Han character

水 (radical 85 水+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 水 (E), four-corner 1223₀)

1. water, liquid, lotion, juice
2. KangXi Radical 85

[edit] References

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

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɵy˧˥/

[edit] Hanzi

水 (jyutping seoi2, Yale seui2)

1. water

[edit] Noun

水 (traditional and simplified, jyutping seoi2)

1. water

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

/mi₁/ > /mi/. Typically found in compounds.

[edit] Noun

水 (hiragana み, romaji mi)

1. water

[edit] Derived terms

• 港 (minato)
• 源 (minamoto)
• 澪 (mio)

[edit] Etymology 2

/mi₁du/ > /midu/ > /mizu/.

[edit] Noun

水 (hiragana みず, romaji mizu, historical hiragana みづ)

1. water (cold, fresh)
2. a fluid; a liquid
3. a flood
4. halting in sumo

[edit] Kanji

水 (grade 1 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: すい (sui)
• Kun: みず (mizu)
• Nanori: うず (uzu), ずみ (zumi), つ (tsu), ど (do), み (mi), みさ (misa), みつ (mitsu), みな (mina), みん (min)

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Names

• 水魚 (みお, Mio); (みずな, Mizuna)
• 水月 (みずき, Mizuki); (すいげつ, Suigetsu); (みずつき, Mizutsuki); (みつき, Mitsuki); (みづき, Midzuki)
• 水彩 (すいさい, Suisai); (みさ, Misa); (みさい, Misai); (みどり, Midori)
• 水成 (みずなり, Mizunari)
• 水村 (みずむら, Mizumura); (みすむら, Misumura); (みづむら, Midzumura); (みむら, Mimura)

Idioms

• 水入らずで

  みずいらずで

  mizuirazu de

  by ourselves

• 水到りて渠成る

  みずいたりてきょなる

  mizu itarite kyonaru

  as time flows, everything falls into place

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

水
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 수 (revised: su, McCune-Reischauer: su, Yale: swu)

• Name (hangeul): 물 (revised: mul, McCune-Reischauer: mul, Yale: mul)

1. (물 수, mul-): water

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

水 (pinyin shuǐ (shui3), Wade-Giles shui³)

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

水 (*shuǐ)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

水 (thuỷ, thủy)