水
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One stream running through tap water, hot water, and flood
The picture A stream running along the low ground and pooling somewhere. 水 runs downward and pools; 火 climbs upward and burns.
Where the picture shows up in 水
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water piped in
수도꼭지가 얼었어요.
su-do-kkok-ji-ga eo-reo-sseo-yo
The tap has frozen.
A metal tap coming out of a kitchen wall, white with ice, not one drop falling
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water that has been heated
온수가 안 나와요.
on-su-ga an na-wa-yo
There's no hot water.
A shower turned all the way left and still pouring out cold
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water in a bottle
생수 한 병 주세요.
saeng-su han byeong ju-se-yo
One bottle of drinking water, please.
A bottle taken out of the shop fridge and set on the counter
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moving inside water
주말마다 수영을 배워요.
ju-mal-ma-da su-yeong-eul bae-wo-yo
I'm learning to swim every weekend.
A body pushing water back with its arms and moving forward
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water that has spilled over
비가 많이 와서 홍수가 났어요.
bi-ga ma-ni wa-seo hong-su-ga na-sseo-yo
It rained hard and the water flooded.
A stream going over its bank and spreading across the road and the fields
All of it in one picture
水 is one stream of water. Pipe it into a house and turn it on and that is tap water; heat it on the way and that is hot water. Sold in a bottle it is drinking water, and moving your body inside it is swimming. When it goes over the edge of whatever was holding it, that is a flood.