Combining form of みず (mizu) above

water: one of the five classical elements in traditional Chinese philosophy and medicine / Short for 水曜日 (suiyōbi): Wednesday / shaved ice served with flavored syrup

body of water / fluid, liquid / Short for 水素 (suiso): hydrogen / water

a female given name

(obsolete) drinking water

(honorific) water / (informal) Synonym of 水商売 (mizu-shōbai)

watery / aqueous / liquid / fluid / water / moist

entreating the enemy to surrender

to entreat the enemy to surrender

Alternative spelling of 天下り: descent to earth from heaven; an avatar; in Japan's postwar period, the practice of awarding a high-level bureaucrat with a high-paying job after retirement (also spelled 天下り): a kind of revolving door syndrome