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沃 = 夭 + 水
沃 is a Japanese kanji written with 7 strokes, listed here under the keyword “irrigate”. It is built from 夭 (sapling) and 水 (water). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 459.
- Keyword
- irrigate
- RTK frame
- 459
- Strokes
- 7
- On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
- ヨウ, ヨク, オク
- Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
- そそ.ぐ
- Script
- Japanese kanji
- Also known as
- fertility, орошать
- Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
- 沃 water
Decomposition
Primary decomposition
How to find 沃 without knowing its reading
On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “sapling” + “water”. 沃 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.
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