水 shuǐ
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 水 — water, liquid, lotion, juice
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
水域
shuǐyù
waters; body of water
Characters in this word
域 yù
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 禁渔期内，任何船只不得进入核心保护水域作业。 Jìnyúqī nèi, rènhé chuánzhī bù dé jìnrù héxīn bǎohù shuǐyù zuòyè. During the fishing ban, no vessel may enter the core protected waters to operate.
- 这片水域水很深，游泳很危险。 Zhè piàn shuǐyù shuǐ hěn shēn, yóuyǒng hěn wēixiǎn. These waters are very deep; swimming here is dangerous.
- 工程师正在测量附近水域的温度和深度。 Gōngchéngshī zhèngzài cèliáng fùjìn shuǐyù de wēndù hé shēndù. The engineers are measuring the temperature and depth of the nearby waters.