The Japanese Radical: 氵


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Meaning
water    氵

Explanation The radical sanzui 氵 is a short form of water 水

Used in these characters:
JLPT 4Joyo 2
sea, ocean
umi, KAI
Left: water 氵, right: every 毎 (Persons 人 = have mothers 母, namely: everybody!) [mother 母 = woman 女 with swollen breasts : of pregnancy]
Water is in every sea.  
JLPT 3Joyo 2
steam, vapor
KI
Left: water 氵, right: steam 气
Water steam is just steam.  
JLPT 4Joyo 2
lake, pond
ike, CHI
Left: water 氵, right: a placeholder for change 也 (image of a snake that molts [=shedding the skin])
Water in a changed form is a lake or pond.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
swim
oyogu, EI
Left: water 氵, right: long time/lasting 永 (The swimmer 丶 is in the water 水 for: a long time)
In the water, a person 丶 can be for a long time 永 (= above the level 一 of the water 水) when swimming.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
warm
atatakai, ON
Left: water 氵, right: sun 日 and a bowl/dish 皿
The water on a sunny plate gets warm.  
JLPT 3Joyo 2
life, vigor, vitality, activity
KATSU
Left: water 氵, right: a tongue 舌
Water on the tongue gives life and vigor.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
decide, determine, set
kimaru, KETSU
Left: water 氵, right: 夬 (a person 人 with a backpack コ)
(On a hike you should have enough water with you:) There is water in the person's backpack: that's what he has decided.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
lake
mizuumi, KO
From left: Water 氵, old 古 (= image of a tomb-stone), moon 月
(Reflection of the full moon in the calm waters of the lake:) The water with the good old moon, that's the: Lake.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
harbor, port
minato,
Left: water 氵, right: 巷 (together 共 [=Put the plants 艹 on the table ] and oneself 己 (己 = Following the winding path I find myself.)
From the waters for reaching the "together" you yourself need to go to: the harbor.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
alcohol, sake
sake, saka-, SHU
Left: water 氵, right: wine jar 酉
The liquid in the wine jar is sake.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
extinguish, erase
kesu, kieru, SHŌ
Left: water 氵, right: alike/resemble sb.肖 (Small 小 bodies 月/肉 are alike.)
With water or sth. alike you can extinguish.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
deep
fukai, SHIN
Left: water 氵, right: variation of hole 穴, tree 木
The water hole at the tree is deep.  
JLPT 4Joyo 3
notes, pour
sosogu, CHŪ
Left: water 氵, right: master 主 (I emphasize 丶, the king 王 is the master.)
Water for the master: note it and pour it in.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
hot water, bath
yu,
Left: water 氵, right: sunrise 旦 (= sun 日 above the horizon 一) together with sunrays 勿) as: warming sun (cf. 易)
Water turns at sunrise by warming sunrays into: hot water.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
wave
nami, HA
Left: water 氵, right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
The water (of the sea) has a skin and this are the waves.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
oil
abura, YU
Left: water 氵, right: reason 由 (.. for the sprout 丨 on the field 田)
Water is with reason no oil.  
JLPT 4Joyo 3
ocean, western

Left: water 氵, right: sheep 羊 (here: white rippled wave with a white crest like wool of a sheep)
The water ripples like sheep's (wool) in the ocean. [over which the Western came]  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
fall, drop, fail, decline
ochiru, RAKU
Top: plant 艹, bottom: water 氵, and each, all 各 (With crossed legs 夂 on a cushion 口 sits everybody.)
Plants (their leaves) and water(drops) all fall down.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
stream, flow, drift
nagareru, RYŪ, RU
Left: water 氵, right: newborn baby (child 子 turned upside down, because at birth with head first), water/amniotic fluid 川
Water as well as a newborn baby's amniotic fluid are flowing.  
JLPT 4Joyo 3
Han-China
KAN
Left: water 氵, right: plant 艹, mouth 口, husband/man 夫 (= big 大 person with extra-caring arms 一)
Water and plants in the mouth of the husband from China.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
fishing
GYO, RYŌ
Left: water 氵, right: fish 魚 (image with head ⺈, body 田 and frayed tail fin 灬)
Having water with fish, you (immediately) think of fishing.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
clean, pure, platonic
kiyoi, SEI, SHŌ
Left: water 氵, right: blue, young 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 as blue and young.)
Water that is blue is also clean and pure.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
shallow, short, light
asai, SEN
Left: water 氵, right: two 二, halberd 戈 (cf. decrease 減)
Water covering only two halberds is too shallow.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
govern, rule, manage, cure, heal
osameru, naosu, CHI, JI
Left: Water 氵, right: platform 台 (= nose ム above the mouth 口)
The water on the platform (i.e. high plateau) is managed by the government and can heal.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
law, rule, regulation
HŌ, HATSU
Left: water 氵, right: go away/leave 去 (Below the earth 土 is the nose ム, that has left.)
The water shall be left! That's the law!  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
fill, full
michiru, mitasu, MAN
Left: water 氵, top: plant 艹, below: both 両 (image of a balance)
(postprandial fullness:) Water and plants: both make you feel: filled.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
bathe
abiru, YOKU
Left: water 氵, right: valley 谷 (Image of a valley that opens into a plain 口.)
The water flows into the valley, where you can have your bath.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
liquid, fluid, juice
EKI
Left: water 氵, right: night 夜 (With a cover/beret 亠 is a person 人 observing the moon 月 in the night.)
Water is also at night a liquid.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
performance, act, play, stage
EN
Left: water 氵, right: roof/house 宀, one 一, field 田, eight 八
The water in the house at the one/single field is part of the eight performances.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
river
kawa, KA
Left: water 氵, right: possible 可 (The nail 丁 into this opening 口 should be possible)
The water that gives possibilities (i.e. for transports) is the river.  
JLPT 1Joyo 5
clean, clear, pure
isagiyoi, KETSU
Left: water 氵, right: tally stick , (pairwise marked sticks were distributed at the conclusion and joined again after implementation of an agreement), sword 刀, thread 糸 (here: a cloth)
With water, a tally stick, a sword and cloth it can be cleaned.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
decrease, decline, reduce, shrink, dwindle
heru, GEN
Left: water 氵, right: (Chinese only:) salty 咸 [gǎn] (The taste is for the person 人 (= ノ & 一) in the mouth 口 like a halberd 戈 such: salty.)
(Salt is dissolved in water over time and then no longer visible:) In water, the salt will decrease and decline.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
mix, stir, confusion, include
majiru, KON
Left: water 氵, right: insect 昆 (image originally carapace 日 and legs 比; from this by misreading: sun 日, compare 比)
(In the past there was no clean water?) Water and insects are mixed.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
Level, conform, semi-, quasi-
JUN
Top: water 氵 and bird 隹, bottom: twig 十 (cf. 支)
(to be closer to the water:) The waterbirds are sitting on a twig/branch on a semi-level.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
measure, fathom
hakaru, SOKU
Left: water 氵, right: rule 則 (Money 貝 [= the capital] and knifes刂 [= violence] determine the rules.)
(fair share for irrigation) Water needs rules for measuring.  
沿
JLPT 1Joyo 6
run alongside, run beside
sou, EN
Left: water 氵, right: var. of valley 谷 (Shows a valley that opens into a plain 口.)
The water in the valley runs alongside.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
cry, weep, moan
naku, KYŪ
Left: water 氵, right: to stand 立
Standing in the water and crying.  
JLPT 1Joyo 6
source, origin, beginning
minamoto, GEN
Left: water 氵, right: origin/plain 原 (Under the cliff 厂 the white 白 small 小 spring 泉 has its origin in the plain)
The water in the plain comes from a source.  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
finish, end, settle (i.e. a dispute)
sumu/masu, SAI, SEI
Left: water 氵, right: equal 斉 (For writing a text you need a sheet 亅丨 with lines 二 to make it equal/uniform.)
With water or the like you can bring things to an end. (just rinse it away)  
JLPT 4Joyo 6
to wash, laundry
arau, SEN
Left: water 氵, right: precede, previous 先 (The cow 牛 uses the front legs 儿 to precede.)
(In Japan you have to shower BEFORE you go into the ofuro [= hot bath], thus:) The water should be used 'before' for: washing.  
JLPT 1Joyo 6
dye, color, stain, paint, soak
somaru/meru, shimiru, SEN
Top: water 氵, nine 九, bottom: tree 木
You need water (= liquid) in 9 (colors, namely the 7 colors of the rainbow + black/white), obtained from trees, to dye with it.  
JLPT 1Joyo 6
seawater, tide
shio, CHŌ
Left: water 氵, right: morning 朝 - BETTER: lake 湖, having the part: "old 古" both normal and upside-down to show changing directions of the tides.
The lake with changing directions stands for: seawater & tides.  
JLPT 1Joyo 6
faction, group, sect, party
HA
Left: water 氵, right: affluents (branches of water 水)
Branched like the water of affluents are the factions and sects.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
dirty, polluted, foul, dishonor
kegareru, yogoreru, kitanai, O
Left: water 氵, right: var. of seaweed 丂
Water with double seaweed is dirty.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
eddy, whirlpool
uzu, KA
Left: water 氵, right: vertebrae (image of bones 骨 = skeleton), Here: visible swirls of water
The water has swirls and eddies: The eddies!  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
limits, boundary, shore, horizon
hate, GAI
From left: water 氵, right: precipice 厓 (cliff 厂 of piled/cumulated earth 圭 [= 2x earth 土])
Water, a cliff, or piles of earth can (each) be a limit.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
lagoon, beach, inlet
kata, SEKI
Left: water 氵, right: mortar 臼, which looks like the inlet to a bay, wrap 勹 and four legs 灬 (cf. bird 鳥, horse 馬
Behind the water is the bay, wherein wrapped (= protected) four legs 灬 (= animals) are: in the lagoon.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
thirst
kawaku, KATSU
Left: water 氵, right: 曷 var. of easy 易 (sun 日, rays勿, where the inner rays are substituted by a sitting person 匕)
Water is needed by the person sitting in the sunshine, because he is thirsty.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
slip, slide, glide, soft, smooth
suberu, nameraka, KATSU
Left: water 氵, right: bone 骨 (bone [pictograph of a vertebra], cover 冖 and body/flesh 月)
(bursa in the joints) Water on the bones makes them smooth and slippery.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
sweat
ase, asebamu, KAN
Left: water 氵, right: dry 干
Water dries like sweat.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
situation, condition, context
mashite, KYŌ
Left: water 氵, right: elder brother 兄 [A big mouth 口 on legs 儿]
In the water is my elder brother, that's the situation.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
mountain stream, gorge, ravine
KEI
Left: water 氵, right top: hand reaching down 爫, below: husband 夫 (= big 大 person with extra-caring arms 一)
Into the raging water, a hand grabs the husband and saves him out of the mountain stream at the gorge.  
JLPT 1Joyo 6
violent, intense, vehement, ardent
hageshii, GEKI
Left: water 氵, middle top: white 白, the rest: let go/release 放 (In his side 方 he was stroke 攵 to release.)
(During a storm at sea:) When the water is white (= has white foam crests) at all sides/directions 方 and is striking 攵, it becomes violent.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
river mouth, inlet, bay, Yangtse
e,
Left: water 氵, right: craftsman 工
At the waters you can build best: at the river's mouth, as during Edo (江戸).  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
flood, vast, deluge

Left: water 氵, right: together 共 (Put the plants 艹 on the table together.)
All waters together make a flood.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
ditch, drain, gutter, channel
mizo, dobu,
Left: water 氵, right: pile up/accumulate (two baskets 再 on top of each other, the lower one upside down)
If you want to pile up (= collect) water, you need a ditch.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
gradually, little by little
yōyaku, ZEN
Left: water 氵, right kill by slicing 斬 ([An accident] with a car 車 or an axe 斤can kill by slicing.)
(due to rust:) Water (damages) vehicles and axes: Gradually and little by little.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
nourishing, nutritious, strengthen, nutrient-rich
JI
Left: water 氵, right: 兹 2x mysterious 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where a upper bracket 艹 holds 玄 hanging stones 石 that behave mysteriously.)
Water is doubly mysterious, if it is nourishing and nutritious.  
湿
JLPT 2Joyo 7
damp, moist, humid, wet
shimeru/su, SHITSU
Left: water 氵, right: sun 日, hollow 业 (= extinct volcanic vent)
The water makes the sunny hole damp and humid.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
(Japan-)lacquer, varnish
urushi, SHITSU
Left: water 氵, right: tree 木, person 人, drip (variation of water 水 with 5 strokes)
From the water/sap of this tree the person makes five drops of: lacquer.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
juice, soup
shiru,
Left: water 氵 right: ten 十 (Here 十 as simplification of 录, which is the right portion of green: 緑 and 录 = squeezing hand ヨ makes liquid 水 to drop.)
The 'water' dropping down, when squeezing by hand is a juice (or soup).  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
bitter, astringent (=bitter taste), hesitate
shibui/ru,
Left: water 氵, right: stop 止 and rippling drops of water
Even the water stops and ripples as it is too bitter.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
graceful, pure, modest
SHUKU
Left: water 氵, right: uncle 叔 (He harvests pepper plants 尗 by hand 又.)
Due to the water, the paprika plants are harvested by hand and are graceful and pure.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
wet, profit, enrich, moisten
uruou/su, JUN
Left: water 氵, right: gate 門 & king 王
(A drinking water pipe to his palace?) If the water is at the gate, the king can get wet, and thereby will: profit.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
swamp, marsh, pond, bog
numa, SHŌ
Left: water 氵, right: call s.o./summon 召 (.. with sword 刀 and mouth 口)
The water (for cleaning) the sword and mouth comes from the swamp.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
ford (=shallow part of a river), transit
SHŌ
Left: water 氵, right: walk 歩 (You should stop 止 a little 少 when: walking.)
You walk through the water: at the ford.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
pure, clean

Left: water 氵, right: conflict/fight 争 (bent person ⺈ with stick 亅 in hand ナ/ヨ looks for a dispute.)
If 'water' is what you are fighting for, then only for the clean and pure.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
harbor, port
tsu, SHIN
Left: water 氵, right: var. of write 書 (A hand ナ/ヨ with a pen 丨 writes two lines 二)
(Because of documentation of ship traffic by the harbor master:) It is at the water and there is written: the harbor.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
soak, immerse, dip, dunk
hitasu/ru, SHIN
Left: water 氵, right: "only one glove" (hand ヨ, only one cover 冖, further hand 又)
In the water with only one glove, you get wet.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
rapids, current, torrent, shallows
se,
Left: water 氵, right: rely, request 頼 (bundle 束 [= things 木,禾 are strapped with a ribbon 口 to a bundle 束], head/forehead 頁)
The water, in which bundles float like heads, are the rapids!  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
submerge, dive, hide, lurk, conceal, lower(voice)
hisomu, moguru, SEN
Left: water 氵, right: exchange, substitute 替 (The two husbands 夫 are during sunshine 日 [=good times] exchangeable.)
[If you can't see] in the water the two husbands despite the sun, they are submerged or hiding.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
impure, muddy/cloudy liquid, uncleanness
nigoru/su, DAKU
Left: water 氵, right: eye 罒, wrap 勹, insect 虫
The water has unclear view of insects (as if wrapped up) as it is impure/muddy. (But it clears 澄 because the (clean) water 氵 rises 登)  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
flood, overflow, inundate
RAN
Left: water 氵, right: supervise, observe 監 (The retainer 臣 and a lying person are mirrored 一 in a plate 皿 they supervise / observe.)
The water has to be supervised to avoid floodings.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
waterweed, seaweed
mo,
Top: plant 艹, below: to wash 澡 (water 氵 and bird's chirping 喿 [also: to gather] assemble (3 beaks 口 of birds in a tree 木)
A plant in the water that is accumulating is: the seaweed.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
stay, sojourn, stagnate, stop, be delayed, slack
todokōru, TAI
Left: water 氵, right: belt 帯 (A belt 一 with mountain-like applications 山 covering 冖 the cloth 巾 is a belt.)
(Build a dike at the river banks:) The water within the 'belt' is staying / sojourning.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
waterfall, cascade, rapids
taki,
Left: water 氵, right: dragon 竜 (It stands 立 in the field 田 with a huge tail 乚: a dragon.)
The "waterdragon" is the waterfall.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
marsh, swamp, brilliance, grace
sawa, TAKU
Left: water 氵, right: measure of length 尺 (from the body 口 one foot 八 forward = 1 Shaku = 30.3 cm)
(Because you would sink in too easily if you took long steps:) In this "water", you 口 carefully place step by step: in the marsh or swampy terrain.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
wash, rinse
TAKU
Left: water 氵, right: (Chinese only: to wash) 翟 (wings 羽, bird 隹)
With water it (becomes as clean) as the wings of a bird, when we are: washing.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
pale, faint, light colors
awai, TAN
Left: water 氵, right: flames 炎 (2x fire 火)
Water makes flames: pale & faint.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
open sea, offshore
oki, CHŪ
Left: water 氵, right: middle 中
Where the water has its middle, is the open sea.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
clear, clarify, settle (liquids)
sumu/masu, CHŌ
Left: water 氵, right: to climb 登 (The volcano 癶 spits bean 豆, let's climb up)
(In dirty water, the dirt settles down & a clean fraction rises up:) When water is climbing, it becomes clear. (Beforehand, in the water 氵 the view 罒 of insects 虫 was only indistinct, as if wrapped up 勹, due to the impurity 濁)  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
sink, go down, fall
shizumu/meru, CHIN
Left: water 氵, right: 冘 (big 大 person with broken arms 冖 and a broken leg 儿)
In the water is sb. with broken arms and leg: Now he is sinking.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
to pickle (food), soak
tsukaru/keru, SHI
Left: water 氵, right: liability/blame 責 (for growing plants and money 貝)
Water is necessary (= has a liability), when the pickles get soaked.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
mud, dirt, mire, adhere to
doro, nazumu, DEI
Left: water 氵, right: nun 尼 (On her buttocks 尸 is sitting 匕 the nun.)
The water, in which the nun is sitting, is muddy.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
drop, drip
shizuku, shitataru, TEKI
Left: water 氵, right: old emperor (mix of emperor 帝 and old 古)
(Due to problems with the prostate gland?) Passing 'water', can be done by old emperor only drop by drop.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
add, append, attach, annexed, accompany, garnish
sou/eru, TEN
Top: fertility 沃 (.. by the water 氵from the sky 夭/天), bottom right: heart 心
(New babies are born?) With fertility in the heart we will add some.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
cross, hand over, go across
wataru/su, TO
广 廿
Left: water 氵, right: degree/extent 度 (The building 广 will be at twenty 廿 (degrees) when I set the thermostate 廿 by hand 又 to this extent / degree.)
Water of this degree (temperature or depth) can be crossed.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
painting, plaster, coat
nuru, TO
Top: 涂 (water 氵, in excess, remain 余 (A heap is still on an altar 示 [= to show], thus in excess.), bottom: earth/ground 土
The water remains in excess on the ground and looks like a painting.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
cave, penetrate
hora,
Left: water 氵, right: same 同.(Here: see 同 as view into a mining tunnel ロ with beams 一 supporting its walls 冂 and ceiling.)
A wet mining tunnel is a cave.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
concentrated, rich (flavor, color, smell,), thick, dense
koi,
Left: water 水, right: agriculture 農 (fructuous fields 曲 [=field 田 with sprouts ||] and: to plow 辰 (At the field corner 厂 a first line 一 is plowed by the farmer 农 [农=Chinese for farmer])
Water in agriculture makes everything grow more concentrated and thicker.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
old woman
baba, BA
Top: wave 波 (= the water's 氵skin 皮) [skin 皮 = A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂], bottom: woman 女
With waves (= with wrinkled skin) is this woman: an old woman.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
overnight stay, lodge
tomaru/meru, HAKU
Left: water 氵, right: white 白 (The shine ノ of the sun 日 makes it white)
Where they have water and white (bed sheets), we are going to lodge.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
desert, vague, vast, wide
BAKU
Left: water 氵, right: sink, go down 莫 (The plants 艹 are made by the sun 日 to be large 大 [= as long shadows] at sunset.) [Watch-out: sunrise is: 旦 or ]
Where the water has 'sunk', it is now a desert.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
secrete, lactation =milk-production, urine, seep out
HITSU, HI
Left: water 氵(here: liquid), right: certainly 必 (... is the heart 心 pierced by a lance ノ)
Liquid will certainly from the pierced heart: secrete out.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
float (on the water), drift, waft
tadayou, HYŌ
西
Left: water 氵, right: vote, ballot 票 (In the west 西 you show 示 at a vote.)
Water 'voted' to let things float.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
beach, seacoast, sands
hama, HIN
Left: water 氵, right: soldier 兵 (... on the hill 丘 are eight 八)
Over the water, soldiers came to the beach.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
float, fleet, surface
uku/kabu/kaberu/kareru, FU
Left: water 氵, right: nourish 孚 (hand reaching down 爫 to a child 子)
Into the water a hand is reaching down for a child that is floating.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
boil, grow hot, gush
waku/kasu, FUTSU
Left: water 氵, right: dollar 弗 (but here: flow heater with boiler coil 弓 and pipes || streamed through)
The water in the flow heater is boiling.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
coast, inlet, bay, seashore
ura, HO
Left: water 氵, right: to begin 甫 (Image of upper body with shoulders 一 and chest 月 with spine 丨 and a head 丶)
The water, where you can stand such that the upper body is still seen is at the: coast or bay.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
foam, bubble, froth
awa,
Left: water 氵, right: to wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
When water is wrapping: it is foam.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
sink, collapse, fall, drown, vanish, ruin
BOTSU
Left: water 氵, right: weapon 几 (battle axe) in a hand 又
(You can't swim well like that:) In the water with a weapon in his hand? - He will sink.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
cartoon (Manga), random, diffuse, boundless
sozoro, MAN
Left: water 氵, right: beautiful 曼 (.. when the sun 日 shines on the eyes 罒 with long eyelashes 又)
Painted with water(colors) and it shows the sun and (big) eyes with eyelashes: The Manga.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
destroy, ruin, crumble
horobiru/bosu, METSU
From left: water 氵, variation of person 人 (= ノ+一), halberd 戈, fire 火
Water, persons, fire and halberds can be: destructive.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
melt, dissolve
tokeru/kasu,
Left: water 氵, right: outer apperance 容 (The roofs 宀 in the valley 谷 define its appearance.)
Water comes from the roofs into the valley, because it is melting.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
cool, refreshing
suzumu/shii, RYŌ
Left: water 氵, right: capital 京 (image of a stone lantern)
The water in the capital is cool and refreshing.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
tear, teardrop, sympathy
namida, RUI
Left: water 氵, right: to return 戻 (From a distance the door still appears small, but: The door 戸 gets bigger 大 and bigger [the closer you get] when you return.)
(Risk of flooding) If the water returns to your door, you will get (big) tears.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
wave, drift, billows, unrestrained, reckless
nami,
Left: water 氵, right: good 良
(When surfing) Water is good, if it is a wave.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
leak, escape
moru/reru/rasu,
Left: water 氵, right: buttock from the side 尸, rain 雨
The water on the buttock is rain, but is leaking down.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
bay, gulf
WAN
Left: water 氵, right: var. of red 赤 (When earth/clay 土 is burned in fire 灬, the pottery turns: red.), and bow 弓
The water is reddish in the bow-shaped bay.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
licentiousness, lewdness, dirty
midara, IN
Left: water 氵, right: hand reaching down 爫; 壬 (Samurai 士 with hat)
To (splash) water and grab the samurai's hat from above is licentiousness.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
devastation, break, crush, smash
tsubu-su, tsubu-reru, KAI
Left: water 氵, right: precious, valuable 貴 (In the middle 中 is one 一 with money 貝 who is valuable!)
By water, even precious things can be devasted.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
sand
suna, SA
Left: water 氵, right: few, little 少
(In the past, water was never pure) In water was always a little sand.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
separate, segregate, lunacy, extreme
TA
Left: water 氵, right: fat 太 (When you are big 大, a little 丶 more makes you thick and fat)
(Lack of dissolubility) Water and fat are separating.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
drown, indulge
oboreru, DEKI
Left: water 氵, right: weak 弱 (= Iced 冫bows 弓 are weak.)
If you are in the water and feel weak, you will: drown.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
spread out, wide, flood, inundation
HAN
Left: water 氵, right: slumped person 㔾
In the water sits a slumped person, because it [=the water] spreat out to a flood.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
universal, pan-, general purpose
HAN
Left: water 氵, right: common 凡 (tables 机/几 with scratches 丶 are common.)
Water is commonly for universal (use).  
JLPT -Joyo 7
uproar, gushing out, bubble up, emergence
waku,
Left: water 氵, right: brave/valiant 勇 (a bent マ man 男, but brave)
The water develops its 'braveness' when it uproars.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
fertility
YOKU
Left: water 氵, right: early-death 夭 (here understood as: heaven 天)
The water from heaven (= the rain) brings fertility.  

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