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水
水 is a Japanese kanji written with 4 strokes, listed here under the keyword “water”. It is treated as a basic building block: it is not broken down any further here. In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 137. It appears as a component in 172 other characters in this index.
- Keyword
- water
- RTK frame
- 137
- Strokes
- 4
- On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
- スイ
- Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
- みず, みず-
- Script
- Japanese kanji
- Also known as
- water droplets, water pistol, вода, tsunami
- Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
- 水 water
Decomposition
No decomposition is listed: this shape is used whole.
Characters that contain 水
- 汐 eventide
- 氷 icicle
- 永 eternity
- 泉 spring
- 泳 swim
- 沼 marsh
- 沖 open sea
- 汎 pan-
- 江 creek
- 汰 cleanse
- 汁 soup
- 沙 grains of sand
- 潮 tide
- 源 source
- 活 lively
- 消 extinguish
- 況 but of course
- 河 river
- 泊 overnight
- 湖 lake
- 測 fathom
- 涯 horizon
- 淡 thin
- 漁 fishing
- 洞 den
- 沫 splash
- 薄 dilute
- 漠 vague
- 洗 wash
- 注 pour
- 涼 refreshing
- 津 haven
- 滅 destroy
- 減 dwindle
- 浅 shallow
- 渉 ford
- 滞 stagnate
- 沃 irrigate
- 泣 cry
- 滴 drip
…and 132 more. See them all in the interactive search.
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