noun #4,022

Meanings

  1. 1 liquid; fluid; juice

Examples

Qǐng duō hē yètǐ.
Please drink more fluids.
Xǐshǒuyè yòng wánle.
The hand soap is used up.

Tips

usage
液体 (yètǐ) = liquid, 血液 (xuèyè) = blood, 洗手液 (xǐshǒuyè) = hand soap/sanitizer.

Components

radical
shuǐ
water (radical form)
Left water radical (the side-form of ), three drops. Marks as a liquid: any flowing or pourable substance. Same radical anchors (river), (sea), (oil), (soup), (wine).
phonetic
night
Right-side supplies the sound, matching the parent's yè exactly. The 'night' meaning may have a faint semantic resonance — bodily fluids (sap, sweat, spittle) were associated with the moisture that gathers at night — but the primary role is phonetic.

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