Jisho

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3 strokes
Radical:
wrap, embrace
Parts:

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 勺 【シャク】 shaku, traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 ml, shaku, traditional unit of area, approx. 0.033 meters square
  • 勺水 【シャクスイ】 shaku of water, 18 ml of water, droplet of water, very small amount of water
  • 一勺 【イッシャク】 one shaku

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shao2, shuo4
Korean:
jag

Spanish

  • cucharón
  • unidad de capacidad y área

Portuguese

  • concha
  • afundar

French

  • louche
  • shaku = un dixième de go = 18 ml
1342 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2020 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
740 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1817 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1903 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2138 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1917 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
228 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3650 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1863 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2540 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
68 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2495 Morohashi
2933 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
565 New Nelson (John Haig)
68 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
72 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1015 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2552 2001 Kanji
0a3.5 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-1 SKIP code
2732.0 Four corner code
1-28-59 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
52fa 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