在汉字发展的最初阶段，“水”已经作为一个独体象形字被创造出来并一直频繁使用。在漫长的汉语发展的历程中，“水”的内涵不断丰富，有些词义出现又消失，也有一些新的词义在当代社会的言语交际中被频繁使用并逐渐定型。本文将以汉语“水”词族为研究对象，通过对“水”词族的构词和造词分析，总结“水”词族的特征，并结合“水”的词义系统，研究“水”的语义发展脉络。研究发现，在“水”词族所有的构词类型中，偏正式占绝对优势。在“水”的21项释义中，本义“最简单的氢氧化合物，无色、无味、无臭的液体”的构词能力最强。在当代语言生活中，“水X”“X水”结构的网络流行语被频繁使用，这类同根词都含有贬义色彩，是“水”的隐含义素中的贬义义素之一凸显的结果；“水X”“X水”结构中“水”的词义新变，在“水”整体的语义发展脉络中有着重要的影响，有必要编入词典给以释义。

From the earliest stage of the development of Chinese characters, Shui(水) has been created as a unique pictogram and has been frequently used. In the long course of Chinese language development, the connotation of Shui has been enriched, some lexical items have appeared and disappeared, and some new lexical meanings have been frequently used in the communication of the contemporary society and have been gradually stereotyped. In this paper, we take the Chinese word family of Shui as the object of study, summarize the characteristics of the word family of Shui through the analysis of the word formation and word formation of the word family of Shui, and combine the word family of Shui with the word family of Shui in this paper. By analyzing the word formation and word formation of the Shui word family, we summarize the characteristics of the Shui word family, and combine them with the lexical system of Shui to study the semantic development of Shui. It is found that among all the word formation types of the word family Shui, partial formality is the most dominant. Among the 21 meanings of Shui, the original meaning "the simplest hydroxide compound, colorless, tasteless and odorless liquid" is the most powerful. In contemporary language life, Internet buzzwords with the structure of Shui X and X Shui are frequently used, and all of these cognates contain pejorative colors, which is the result of one of the pejorative elements in the implicit meanings of Shui coming to the forefront. This is the result of one of the pejorative elements in the hidden meaning of Shui; the new meaning of Shui in the structure of Shui X and X Shui, in the overall semantic development of Shui, is the new meaning of Shui. The new changes in the meaning of Shui in the structure of Shui X and X Shui have an important influence on the overall semantic development of Shui and need to be compiled into a dictionary for interpretation.