marsh, lake, bog, swamp, pond
沼 centers on a body of still, shallow water with soft, muddy ground: a marsh, swamp, bog, or pond. The lake sense is a larger, more open version of the same wetland idea.
沼 combines 氵 (water) with 召, which likely contributes the sound and may relate to calling or gathering, suggesting a place where water collects.
Water 氵 gathers at a place that calls 召 it: a marsh or pond where water collects and sits still.
For ショウ, imagine a show of water lilies floating on a still marsh: show -> ショウ, and the pond becomes a stage.
marsh; swamp; wetland; bog; pond
bog; marsh; swamp; quagmire; morass
ponds and swamps
deep-mud paddy
marshland; wetland; swampland
lake; marsh; wetland; inland waters
marsh; swamp; bog
marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)
Yamato shrimp (Caridina multidentata); Amano shrimp
to get hooked (on a video game, TV show, etc.); to become addicted (to); to become obsessed (with)
Paratya compressa (species of freshwater shrimp)
Adenostemma lavenia (species of flowering plant)
bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum)
marsh gas; methane
wetland; marshland
helophyte; marsh plant
Nunakawahime no Mikoto
marshes and lakes
water shield (Brasenia schreberi)
Lysimachia fortunei (species of loosestrife)