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汛

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high water; flood; to sprinkle water

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Strokes
6
Radical
水 +3
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
汛
Common rank
#2,717
Unicode
U+6C5B

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Formation & memory

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How 汛 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

氵 meaning “water” + 卂 sound ( xùn )

Components 氵 卂

Words with 汛

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WordPinyinMeaning
鱼汛期 yú xùn qī variant of 漁汛期|渔汛期[yu2 xun4 qi1]
桃花汛 táo huā xùn spring flood (at peach-blossom time)
洪汛期 hóng xùn qī flood season
汛情 xùn qíng water levels during the flood season
鱼汛 yú xùn variant of 漁汛|渔汛[yu2 xun4]
汛期 xùn qī flood season
渔汛期 yú xùn qī fishing season
防汛 fáng xùn flood control; anti-flood (precautions)
春汛 chūn xùn spring flood
秋汛 qiū xùn autumn flood
伏汛 fú xùn summer flood
桃汛 táo xùn spring flood (at peach-blossom time)
潮汛 cháo xùn spring tide
渔汛 yú xùn fishing season
凌汛 líng xùn ice-jam flood (arising when river downstream freezes more than upstream)

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 卂 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
卂 sound part xùn to fly rapidly
讯 xùn news, information; to question, to interrogate