splash

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

發 sound component

  Sound component

  

send out

Definitions

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pour, splash, water, sprinkle; violent, malignant; to splash; to spill; rough and coarse; brutish

Most common words with 潑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

活泼

lively

to splash

泼妇

shrew

泼辣

shrewish

泼冷水

lit. to pour cold water on

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.4232% of movies

2277th most common character in movies

2327th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+6F51


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