漏
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to leak; to divulge; to leave out by mistake; waterclock or hourglass (old)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 水 +11
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 漏
- Common rank
- #1,237
- Unicode
- U+6F0F
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Formation & memory
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How 漏 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Water 氵 falling like raindrops 雨; 屚 provides the pronunciation
Components 氵 屚
How to remember it
leak · Heisig RSH #2141
水 water + flag + 雨 rain
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 漏
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 点水不漏 | not one drop of water leaks (idiom); fig. thoughtful and completely rigorous; watertight | |
| 一字不漏 | without missing a word | |
| 漏网之鱼 | (lit.) a fish that escaped the net (idiom); (fig.) sb or sth that slips through the net | |
| 出漏子 | to take a wrong turn; to go wrong | |
| 克漏字 | cloze (loanword) (Tw) | |
| 漏网游鱼 | see 漏網之魚|漏网之鱼[lou4 wang3 zhi1 yu2] | |
| 天机不可泄漏 | lit. mysteries of heaven must not be revealed (idiom); must not be revealed; I am not at l… | |
| 说漏嘴 | to blurt out; to let slip | |
| 船到江心，补漏迟 | It's too late to plug the leak once ship is in the middle of the river. (idiom) | |
| 滴漏计时器 | hourglass; water clock; clepsydra | |
| 挂一漏万 | to mention some but omit many others (idiom); to leave out much more than one includes | |
| 漏洞百出 | (of an argument, theory etc) full of flaws (idiom) | |
| 漏水 | (of pipes, ceilings, roofs etc) to leak water; to have a water leak | |
| 地漏 | drain; underground drainpipe; floor gutter; 25th of 2nd lunar month | |
| 滴水不漏 | lit. not one drop of water can leak out; watertight; rigorous (argument) | |
| 漏气 | to leak air or gas | |
| 漏电 | to leak electricity; (fig.) (coll.) to unintentionally arouse romantic interest (by being … | |
| 漏斗云 | funnel cloud | |
| 疏而不漏 | loose, but allows no escape (idiom, from Laozi 老子[Lao3 zi3]); the way of Heaven is fair, b… | |
| 漏水转浑天仪 | water-driven armillary sphere (Zhang Heng's famous astronomical apparatus) |