• chuan
• river, stream
• 3 line of streams of a flowing river

135) 州

• Zhou
• state; province; administrative division
• landmasses (small marks) surrounded by rivers (3 lines) form administrative "islands" like prefectures, provinces, or states

• Shun
• to obey, to follow
• the flow of the river will help you to follow the "head" and to obey him; in short:
  flow to follow the head

• Shui
• WATER, liquid
• a flowing water with different tributaries (pritoke)

• Yong
• eternal, forever, perpetual; always
• a water meander finding a way for an eternal flow; a liquid will forever find a way to create new streams  

• mai
• pulse; veins, arteries, blood vessels
• flesh needs the eternal flow of the liquid of life through the veins and arteries 

• Qiu
• to seek, to request, to demand
• this crackled character requests - actually demands a huge effort of imagination while seeking its meaning,  

• Quan
• spring, fountain
• the white bubbles of a string water 

• yuan
• origin(al), source
• spring water emerging from high ground symbolizes the source or origin of something

• yong
• swim
• the eternal lure to "flow" and swim with the water

• Zhou
• continent
• states are separated by small water, continents are separated by great oceans

• Zhao
• swamp, MARSH, pond
• water is summoned/gathered in swamps and marshes

146) 沙

• sha
• sand
• for the 'gravel' character one needs stones, but since sand is finer - a stone is replaced with water

• Zhi
• juice
• water with ten fruit in it is a juice

• chao
• tide
• ebbs and flows - the tides - of the dynasty

• yuan
• SOURCE, origin, spring, root
• water comes to a marsh from some kind of a source

• huo
• to live, living, alive; work
• water on a tongue - to live and work

• Xiao
• to disappear, to vanish
• the flood of the water will make the body of the candle disappear and the light of the candle vanish

• He
• river
• a water which can move is a river

• Yu
• fish
• a head, body, fins, and tail of a fish

• DiaoYU
• to fish, fishing
• a water with fish - good for fishing

• Hu
• lake
• recklessly swimming in a lake leads to death 

• ce
• to measure, to survey
• water is subdued under the rules and standards - so that it could be easily measured 

• tu
• soil, earth, ground, dirth
• a mound rising from the earth

159) 均

• jun
• equal, even, all
• the land should be uniformly distributed - an equal share for all

• du
• belly
• a part of the body that looks like a mound of soil is a belly

• chen
• dust, dirt, earth
• a small bit of earth meaning dust 

• Tian
• to fill, fill in/up
• the earth must be filled in with a real soil; it's filled up when the "bars" in 'real' are full with soil

• tu
• spit
• mouths like to spit on the dirt

• ya
• press, oppress, pressure
• a cliff (topsoil) puts pressure on the earth (subsoil) thus creating small precious stones 

147) 江

• yiang
• river, Yangtze
• a water for all the great works is the biggest river in China