TSUMUGU · B1 (est.) · 字
滑
滑 ＝ 氵 ＋ 骨
ㄏㄨㄚˊ · huá
adj/verb — slippery, smooth; to slide, slip
字源 FORM — what the parts do
氵義water
骨聲gǔ — gives the sounda bone, frame and flesh-scrap — read here as huá, the reading worn far from gǔ
{g,h}ITgǔ → huá — initial and tone both shift, the sound near-buried
Water (氵) over 骨, a bone — and 骨 here is a phonetic, not a picture, its reading gǔ worn all the way to huá. Wet a polished surface and your footing goes — slippery, smooth (光滑, 滑冰). From losing your grip: to slide (滑倒), and a slipperiness of manner, sly or droll (滑稽, 滑頭).
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
光面（骨）上潑一層水（氵），腳一踩就溜出去。
A wet sheet of water (氵) over a polished face (骨) — one step and the foot slides away.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)光滑、滑溜— slippery, smooth常用
→滑倒、滑冰— to slide, slip常用
⇒滑稽、滑頭— droll; sly, slippery (of a person)
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
骨gǔthe bare sound donor — a bone, before water was added; its reading buried here猾huáthe series — cunning, the dog radical 犭 instead of water