唾液

tuò yè · HSK 7

saliva

唾液 — saliva

💧 唾 spit + 液 liquid = saliva, the liquid you spit

唾 (tuò) means spit or saliva and 液 (yè) means liquid or fluid, so the compound literally reads spit-liquid. The 氵 water radical on the left of both characters flags that this is something wet.

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