Jisho

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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

8 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
bubbles, foam, suds, froth
Kun:
あわ
On:
ホウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1872 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 泡影 【ホウエイ】 bubbles and shadows, something transient
  • 宝瓶 【ホウヒン】 handleless Japanese tea pot
  • 水泡 【スイホウ】 foam, bubble, nothing
  • 気泡 【キホウ】 (air) bubble (esp. in a liquid)

Kun reading compounds

  • 泡 【あわ】 bubble, foam, froth, suds, lather, head (on beer)
  • 泡盛 【あわもり】 awamori, strong Okinawan liquor distilled from rice or millet
  • 口角泡 【こうかくあわ】 frothing at the mouth
  • 一泡 【ひとあわ】 blow, shock

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
pao4, pao1
Korean:
po

Spanish

  • burbuja
  • espuma

Portuguese

  • bolhas
  • espuma

French

  • bulle
  • mousse
  • écume
1795 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1781 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2523 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1904 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1466 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1765 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1895 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1629 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1182 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
392 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
249 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
296 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
539 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17307X Morohashi
334 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3093 New Nelson (John Haig)
533 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
572 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1206 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
356 2001 Kanji
3a5.18 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
3711.2 Four corner code
1-43-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6ce1 Unicode hex code