灌 guàn to water
to water; to irrigate; to pour
怎么记住“灌”: 氵 water + 雚 stork = to water. The farmer opens the ditch, the water rushes in, and a stork steps aside as he starts to water the rice field.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
灌 = 氵 water + 雚 stork
- 氵 water meaning
- 雚 stork sound
The farmer opens the ditch, the water rushes in, and a stork steps aside as he starts to water the rice field.
How it came to be
Water gives the meaning and the stork the sound; the word was first the name of a river.
用法
- To pour/pump in, to irrigate: 灌溉 (guàngài) to irrigate, 灌水 (guànshuǐ) to fill with water (also web slang for posting filler content).
- 灌输 (guànshū) means to instill/indoctrinate: 灌输思想 (guànshū sīxiǎng) to drum ideas into someone. 灌篮 (guànlán) is a slam dunk.