下した水みず

noun

water flowing underneath; hidden feelings

Literally water flowing beneath something, and figuratively one's true feelings hidden beneath the surface. The figurative use is somewhat literary.

• 橋はしの下したを下した水みずが静しずかに流ながれていた。

  Water was quietly flowing underneath the bridge.

• 彼かれの言こと葉ばの下した水みずには深ふかい悲かなしみが感かんじられた。

  Beneath his words, one could sense deep sadness.

noun

kanji 'water' radical at bottom (radical 85)

Refers to the 氺 (したみず) form of the water radical when it appears at the bottom of a kanji, as in 泰. This is a technical kanji term.

• 「泰たい」の字じの下したの部ぶ分ぶんは下した水みずと呼よばれる部ぶ首しゅです。

  The bottom part of the character 泰 is the radical called したみず.