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On reading compounds

  • 瓠 【フクベ】 Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda (variety of bottle gourd), gourd (container) made from its fruit, Lagenaria siceraria var. depressa (variety of bottle gourd)
  • 瓠 【ヒサゴ】 gourd, calabash, bottle gourd, dried gourd, used as flask

Kun reading compounds

  • 瓠 【ひさご】 gourd, calabash, bottle gourd, dried gourd, used as flask
  • 瓠 【ふくべ】 Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda (variety of bottle gourd), gourd (container) made from its fruit, Lagenaria siceraria var. depressa (variety of bottle gourd)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
piao2
Korean:
pyo

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2975 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2668 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2356 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1657 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
21419X Morohashi
3688 New Nelson (John Haig)
2911 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2920 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4e12.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-6 SKIP code
1293.0 Four corner code
1-41-27 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
74e2 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
lake
Kun:
みずうみ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
1344 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 湖 【コ】 lake (in place names)
  • 湖沼 【コショウ】 lake, marsh, wetland, inland waters
  • 汽水湖 【キスイコ】 brackish lake
  • 塩水湖 【エンスイコ】 saltwater or saline lake

Kun reading compounds

  • 湖 【みずうみ】 lake
  • 白鳥の湖 【はくちょうのみずうみ】 Swan Lake (ballet)
  • 白鳥の湖 【はくちょうのみずうみ】 Swan Lake (ballet)

Readings

Japanese names:
うみ、 み
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hu2
Korean:
ho

Spanish

  • lago

Portuguese

  • lago

French

  • lac
394 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
293 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
276 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1086 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2628 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
573 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
699 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1584 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
467 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
475 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
453 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1220 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
736 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
439 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
551 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
150 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17836 Morohashi
604 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3240 New Nelson (John Haig)
148 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
159 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
396 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
346 2001 Kanji
3a9.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
3712.0 Four corner code
1-24-48 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6e56 Unicode hex code