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Learn Chinese Characters 003 水
Author: caren_zuo Date: 2007-07-31 14:47
By Caren Zuo
水 (shuǐ )

The types of charactere script (from left to right)--oracle script, bronzeware script, seal script, regular script
The characters of oracle script, bronzeware script, seal scrit show you the water is flowing. The four dots, representing drops of water, lie on both sides of a vertical curve, which represent the winding river course.
“水” is a radical which is related to WATER when it forms combined characters. There is also another transformed radical “氵” (called sān diǎn shuǐ in Chinese), which is usually put on the left part of combined characters.
Please point out where the sān diǎn shuǐ lie in the following characters.
江 河 湖 海 汗 泪
Phrases:
海水 (hǎi shuǐ )seawater
河水 (hé shuǐ )river water
汗水 (hàn shuǐ)sweat
泪水 (lèi shuǐ )teardrop
口水 (kǒu shuǐ)saliva
水果 (shuǐ ɡuǒ)fruit
山水 (shān shuǐ)mountains and waters, natural scenery.
青山绿水(qīng shān lǜ shuǐ ) green mountains and green waters
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Actually the pronounciation of "海水" (hǎi shuǐ )in spoken Chinese turns into (hái shuǐ ). For if two third tones is next to each other, the first third tone would turn into the second tone.
So dose the phrase "水果",which pronounces (shuíguǒ) instead of (shuǐ guǒ).
So dose the phrase "水果",which pronounces (shuíguǒ) instead of (shuǐ guǒ).
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