Zi Collection, Page Position: Upper, Radical: Water (shuǐ), Page 140, Entry 07 The character "kě" (thirsty) in "Shuowen Jiezi" was originally written as "㵣". It is now commonly written as "渴". It also has the meaning of slow or sluggish. The "Guoyu" (Discourses of the States), in its "Jin Yu" (Discourses of Jin), states: "Now we are wasting time and squandering our years."