The spring water is clear and you can see straight to the bottom.
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湜 'clear water' is not used independently in modern Chinese. It appears almost only in the classical reduplication 湜湜 (of water, crystal clear) and in personal names. The phonetic is 是.
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Archaic and literary only, found in old poetry and etymology notes. The everyday word for clear water is 清澈.
