xiè

a blocked stream

xiè
to become watery
(of semi-liquids like porridge, paste, or eggs) to become thin or watery; to lose consistency
to dilute
(colloquial) to thin a paste or semi-liquid by adding water; to dilute, such as when thinning sesame paste or glue
(bound form) seaside
(literary) used in ancient geographical names to refer to the seaside or a branch of the sea, specifically in the ancient name for the Bohai Sea 勃澥 bó​xiè

Frequency

Written text
0.017 per million

Details

Strokes
16
Unicode
U+6FA5

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)