Example sentences
gěi给wǒ我diǎn点shuǐ水。
Give me some water.
shuǐ水kāi开le了。
The water is boiling.
The story behind the character
水
A winding river in the middle, a few splashes at the sides. The earliest 水 looks exactly like a stream. Xu Shen took a different angle: 水, 准也: "water is level," the root of the word for "level" itself.