Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
thumb, inch
Parts:
seal, closing
On:
フウホウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1143 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 封 【フウ】 seal
  • 封鎖 【フウサ】 blockade, lockdown, sealing off (an area), freezing (funds)
  • 帯封 【オビフウ】 currency strap, banknote strap, currency band, money band, mailing wrapper (around a newspaper, etc.)
  • 液封 【エキフウ】 liquid seal, liquid ring
  • 封建的 【ホウケンテキ】 feudal, feudalistic
  • 封建主義 【ホウケンシュギ】 feudalism
  • 移封 【イホウ】 forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate
  • 旧封 【キュウホウ】 former fief

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
feng1
Korean:
bong

Spanish

  • sello
  • feudo
  • prevenir
  • sellar
  • cerrar

Portuguese

  • carimbo
  • fechamento

French

  • sceller
  • fermeture
1762 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1039 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1349 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1124 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
477 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
885 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1463 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1558 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
372 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
504 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1639 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
865 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1182 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
158 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7426 Morohashi
1287 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1376 New Nelson (John Haig)
156 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
168 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1246 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1448 2001 Kanji
3b6.13 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-3 SKIP code
4410.0 Four corner code
1-41-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c01 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
water
Kun:
みずみず-
On:
スイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
223 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 水 【スイ】 Wednesday, shaved ice (served with flavored syrup), water (fifth of the five elements)
  • 水位 【スイイ】 water level
  • 用水 【ヨウスイ】 irrigation water, water for fire, city water, cistern water
  • 浄水 【ジョウスイ】 clean water, purified water

Kun reading compounds

  • 水 【みず】 water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water), fluid (esp. in an animal tissue), liquid, flood, floodwaters, water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout, break granted to wrestlers engaged in a prolonged bout
  • 水揚げ 【みずあげ】 landing, unloading (e.g. a ship), catch (of fish), takings, sales (of a shop), defloration (e.g. of a geisha), preservation (of cut flowers, in ikebana)
  • 飲み水 【のみみず】 drinking water, potable water
  • 呼び水 【よびみず】 pump-priming, rousing, stimulation

Readings

Japanese names:
うず、 ずみ、 つ、 ど、 み、 みさ、 みつ、 みな、 みん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shui3
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • agua

Portuguese

  • água

French

  • eau
14 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
16 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
40 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
144 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2482 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
16 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
68 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
54 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
21 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
21 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
19 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1151 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
10 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
132 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17083 Morohashi
10 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3030 New Nelson (John Haig)
130 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
137 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
166 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
31 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1142 2001 Kanji
3a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-1-3 SKIP code
4-4-3 SKIP code
1223.0 Four corner code
1-31-69 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c34 Unicode hex code