滑
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to slip; to slide; slippery; smooth; sly; slippery; not to be trusted
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Dict coverage rank #737 U+6ED1
How 滑 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 骨 (phonetic, gǔ)
How to remember it
slippery · Heisig RSH #1054
水 water + 骨 skeleton
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 骨
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 骨 (gǔ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 骨 sound component | gǔ | bone; skeleton; frame, framework |
| 猾 | huá | crafty, cunning, shrewd; deceitful |
| 鹘 | hú | a kind of pigeon; treron permagna |
Words containing 滑
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小心地滑 | xiǎo xīn dì huá | (used on signs) caution – wet floor (lit. "be careful, the floor is slippery") |
| 单脚滑行车 | dān jiǎo huá xíng chē | scooter |
| 油光水滑 | yóu guāng shuǐ huá | sleek; shiny and smooth |
| 滑水道 | huá shuǐ dào | water slide |
| 滑行道 | huá xíng dào | taxiway (at airport) |
| 平滑字 | píng huá zì | (typography) sans serif |
| 天雨路滑 | tiān yù lù huá | roads are slippery due to rain (idiom) |
| 双人滑 | shuāng rén huá | pair skating |
| 滑板车 | huá bǎn chē | kick scooter; push scooter |
| 滑雪运动 | huá xuě yùn dòng | skiing |
| 花式滑冰 | huā shì huá bīng | (Tw) figure skating |
| 滑县 | Huá Xiàn | Hua County or Huaxian, a county in Anyang City 安陽市|安阳市[An1 yang2 Shi4], Henan |
| 滑水 | huá shuǐ | water skiing; to water-ski |
| 滑头 | huá tóu | crafty; slippery; slyboots |
| 滑步机 | huá bù jī | elliptical trainer |
| 地滑 | dì huá | landslide |
| 滑动 | huá dòng | to slide; sliding movement |
| 滑行 | huá xíng | to slide; to coast; to glide; (of an aircraft) to taxi |
| 花滑 | huā huá | figure skating (abbr. for 花樣滑冰|花样滑冰[hua1 yang4 hua2 bing1]) |
| 手滑 | shǒu huá | to do sth by mistake (with one's hand); to make a slip of the hand (e.g. click the wrong b… |