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

14 strokes (also 15)
Radical:
eat, food 食 (飠)
Parts:
Variants:
mochi rice cake
Kun:
もちもちい
On:
ヘイヒョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2152 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 餅餤 【ベイダン】 Heian-period pastry made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares
  • 餅盤 【ヘイバン】 laccolith
  • 画餅 【ガベイ】 something useless, picture of rice cakes
  • 供餅 【クモチ】 mochi rice cakes used as offering

Kun reading compounds

  • 餅 【もち】 mochi, (sticky) rice cake
  • 餅網 【もちあみ】 grill or grate for toasting rice cakes
  • 椿餅 【つばいもちい】 rice-cake sweet sandwiched between two camellia leaves
  • 五平餅 【ごへいもち】 skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso
  • 餅 【もち】 mochi, (sticky) rice cake
  • 餅いなり 【もちいなり】 sticky rice wrapped in deep-fried tofu
  • 椿餅 【つばいもちい】 rice-cake sweet sandwiched between two camellia leaves
  • 愛敬の餅 【あいきょうのもちい】 Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bing3
Korean:
byeong

Spanish

  • pastel de pasta de arroz

Portuguese

French

5166 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2346 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1219 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2256 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1596 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
44133X Morohashi
6689 New Nelson (John Haig)
2802 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1590 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2855 2001 Kanji
8b6.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-6 SKIP code
8874.1 Four corner code
1-44-63 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9905 Unicode hex code