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

11 strokes
Radical:
tile
Parts:
bottle, vial, jar, jug, vat, urn
Kun:
かめへい
On:
ビン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1528 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 瓶 【ビン】 bottle, jar, decanter, flagon, phial, vial
  • 瓶詰め 【ビンヅメ】 bottling, bottled
  • 火炎瓶 【カエンビン】 Molotov cocktail, petrol bomb, gasoline bomb
  • 水瓶 【スイビョウ】 portable water vessel (for drinking or washing up)

Kun reading compounds

  • 甕 【かめ】 earthenware pot
  • 瓶覗 【かめのぞき】 faint indigo blue (traditional Japanese color name)
  • 瓶 【へい】 jar or vase with a long narrow neck
  • 瓶子 【へいじ】 earthenware pot (used as a decanter), jar, jug
  • 大瓶 【たいへい】 large earthenware pot
  • 酒瓶 【さかびん】 sake bottle

Readings

Japanese names:
べ、 ぺ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ping2
Korean:
byeong

Spanish

  • botella
  • frasco
  • jarra
  • urna
  • tarro

Portuguese

  • Vaso de flores
  • garrafa
  • garrafinha
  • jarro
  • barril
  • cântaro

French

  • pot de fleurs
  • fiole
  • pot
  • pichet
  • cuve
  • urne
1747 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1665 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2984 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1538 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1388 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1161 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1217 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1822 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1324 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1702 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
908 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1231 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1041 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21486 Morohashi
1344 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3699 New Nelson (John Haig)
1032 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1109 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1464 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
956 2001 Kanji
2o9.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-5 SKIP code
8141.7 Four corner code
1-41-51 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
74f6 Unicode hex code