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湖 = 水 + 胡

湖 is a Japanese kanji written with 12 strokes, listed here under the keyword “lake”. It is built from 水 (water) and 胡 (uncivilized). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 159.

Keyword
lake
RTK frame
159
Strokes
12
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
コ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
みずうみ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
озеро
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
湖 a lake

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 水 water
  2. 胡 uncivilized

How to find 湖 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “water” + “uncivilized”. 湖 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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