水 shuǐ
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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') -
shuǐ
noun
Kangxi radical 85
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7) -
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) -
shuǐ
noun
liquid; lotion; juice
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '水' 1, p. 425; Unihan '水') -
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) -
shuǐ
verb
to swim
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '水' 4, p. 425) -
shuǐ
noun
a body of water
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 水域 (GHC '水' 4) -
shuǐ
proper noun
Shui
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (GHC '水' 6) -
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) -
shuǐ
noun
water
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: jala; Japanese: mizu, or: sui (BCSD '水', p. 702; DJBT '水', p. 433; MW 'jala'; SH '水', p. 159)
Contained in
- 水边林下迹偏多(水邊林下跡偏多) beside the river on the forest floor, there are many tracks
- 活水人生 清凉自在(活水人生 清涼自在) A Life Like Free-Flowing Water; Remain Calm and at Perfect Ease
- 仁山智水 Benevolent as a Mountain, Wise as Water
- 意静不随流水转 心闲还笑白云飞(意靜不隨流水轉 心閑還笑白雲飛) A mind, once tranquil, never goes with the flow; A heart, once at ease, amused even by clouds.
- 悟心活水 An Enlightened Mind Flows Freely Like Water
- 沩山水牯牛(溈山水牯牛) Guishan's water buffalo
- 天宽地阔平淡裏 山青水绿有无中(天寬地闊平淡裏 山青水綠有無中) Up in the endless sky, over on borderless land, within simple ordinary life; Green mountains, verdant waters, both nothing and everything.
- 搬柴运水皆妙道 穿衣吃饭尽禅机(搬柴運水皆妙道 穿衣吃飯盡禪機) Realize the wondrous Way through collecting wood and water; Attain the Chan mind through dressing and eating.
- 仓恒水南寺(倉恒水南寺) Cang Heng Shui Nan Temple
Also contained in
鱼水 、 落水管 、 黑水鸡 、 池水 、 秀水乡 、 热水澡 、 赤水市 、 细水长流 、 水球场 、 水温 、 水球 、 水胀 、 青绿山水 、 血浓于水 、 水灾 、 汴水 、 水肺 、 溱水 、 冷水江市 、 水性 、 水坑 、 水下核爆炸 、 喷水池 、 流水 、 羼水 、 水上摩托 、 融水 、 出水植物 、 合水 、 趟浑水 、 拖人下水 、 水磨 、 汙水 、 水平仪 、 水生植物 、 涉水 、 雨水 、 牵马到河易,强马饮水难 、 一潭死水 、 寻水术 、 潜水衣 、 柔肤水
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Scroll 1 Yangjuemoluo Jing (Aṅgulimālīyasūtra) 央掘魔羅經 — count: 89 , has English translation , has parallel version
- Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 — count: 79
- Scroll 3 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 — count: 77
- Scroll 3 Mahāsaṅghikavinaya (Mohesengzhi Lu) 摩訶僧祇律 — count: 77
- Scroll 9 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 69
- Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 69
- Scroll 27 The Large Sūtra on Perfection of Wisdom 大般若波羅蜜多經 — count: 68 , has parallel version
- Scroll 8 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 61
- Scroll 4 Divine Spells and Great Dharanis Taught by the Seven Buddhas and Eight Bodhisattvas (Qi Fo Ba Pusa Suo Shuo Da Tuoluoni Shen Zhou Jing) 七佛八菩薩所說大陀羅尼神呪經 — count: 57 , has English translation
- Scroll 35 Mahāsaṅghikavinaya (Mohesengzhi Lu) 摩訶僧祇律 — count: 54
Collocations
- 大海水 (大海水) 去大金剛山不遠有大海水 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 18 — count: 25
- 水中 (水中) 以右手內著水中 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 14
- 水浇 (水澆) 譬如剎利水澆頭種 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 5 — count: 12
- 澡水 (澡水) 行澡水畢 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 11
- 水毕 (水畢) 行澡水畢 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 10
- 离水 (離水) 風吹離水 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 21 — count: 9
- 水令 (水令) 吹水令動 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 21 — count: 9
- 吹水 (吹水) 吹水令動 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 21 — count: 9
- 水转 (水轉) 其水轉減至無數百千萬由旬 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 21 — count: 7
- 讲道理水 (講道理水) 佉陀羅山中間有水 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 22 — count: 6