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清

11 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
二 亠 土 汁 月 青
pure, purify, cleanse, exorcise, Manchu dynasty
Kun:
きよ.い、 きよ.まる、 きよ.める
On:
セイ、 ショウ、 シン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
705 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 清算 【セイサン】 (financial) settlement, squaring accounts, clearing debts, liquidation, ending (a relationship), breaking up (with), burying (the past), redeeming (one's faults)
  • 清潔 【セイケツ】 clean, hygienic, sanitary, pure, virtuous, immaculate
  • 血清 【ケッセイ】 serum, blood serum
  • 乳清 【ニュウセイ】 whey
  • 清浄 【セイジョウ】 pure, clean, purity
  • 清浄無垢 【セイジョウムク】 purity, spotlessness
  • 清 【シン】 Qing dynasty (of China; 1644-1912), Ch'ing dynasty, Manchu dynasty
  • 清朝 【シンチョウ】 Qing dynasty (of China; 1644-1912), Ch'ing dynasty, Manchu dynasty, seichōtai, typeface which resembles brush-stroke forms of characters
  • 東清 【トウシン】 Eastern China
  • 日清 【ニッシン】 Japan and Qing China

Kun reading compounds

  • 清い 【きよい】 clean, clear, pure, honest, clean, innocent, platonic, chaste
  • 清い愛 【きよいあい】 pure love, platonic love
  • 清まる 【きよまる】 to be purified, to be cleansed
  • 清める 【きよめる】 to purify, to cleanse, to exorcise, to purge, to ward off

Readings

Japanese names:
あき、 さや、 し、 すが、 すみ、 せ、 ちん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qing1
Korean:
cheong

Spanish

  • puro
  • claro
  • purificar
  • limpiar

Portuguese

  • puro
  • purificar
  • limpar
  • exorcisar
  • Disnastia Manchu

French

  • pur
  • purifier
  • exorciser
  • nettoyer
  • dynastie Mandchoue
440 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
547 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
517 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
509 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2605 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
654 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
692 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1342 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
660 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
671 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
754 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1213 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
635 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
384 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
479 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1553 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17695P Morohashi
523 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3205 New Nelson (John Haig)
1539 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1659 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
569 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
346 2001 Kanji
3a8.18 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
3512.7 Four corner code
1-32-22 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6e05 Unicode hex code

水

4 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
水
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

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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

康

11 strokes
Radical:
house on cliff 广
Parts:
广 ヨ 水 隶
ease, peace
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
760 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 康安 【コウアン】 Kōan era (of the Northern Court; 1361.3.29-1362.9.23)
  • 康永 【コウエイ】 Kōei era (of the Northern Court; 1342.4.27-1345.10.21)
  • 小康 【ショウコウ】 lull, breathing spell, respite, remission (of an illness), becoming stable
  • 安康 【アンコウ】 calm and peaceful period of time

Readings

Japanese names:
かん、 こ、 みち、 やす、 やすし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kang1
Korean:
gang

Spanish

  • tranquilo
  • calmado
  • sano

Portuguese

  • facilidade
  • paz

French

  • tranquille
  • paisible
608 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
506 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
480 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
783 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1518 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
860 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
513 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1509 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
894 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
916 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1054 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
592 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3877 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1994 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2693 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1167 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9376 Morohashi
3124 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1621 New Nelson (John Haig)
1159 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1243 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
565 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
542 2001 Kanji
3q8.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-8 SKIP code
0023.2 Four corner code
1-25-15 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5eb7 Unicode hex code

也

3 strokes
Radical:
second 乛 (乙, ⺄, 乚)
Parts:
｜ 乙 匕 也
to be (classical)
Kun:
なり、 か、 また
On:
ヤ、 エ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1404 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • や行 【ヤギョウ】 the "ya" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ya, yu, yo)

Kun reading compounds

  • 也 【なり】 to be, to be (at a location), sum of money
  • 弱き者よ汝の名は女なり 【よわきものよなんじのなはおんななり】 frailty, thy name is woman
  • 知らぬは亭主ばかりなり 【しらぬはていしゅばかりなり】 the husband is always the last to know, everyone knows of the wife's infidelity but the cuckolded husband

Readings

Japanese names:
し
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ye3
Korean:
ya

Spanish

  • ser

Portuguese

French

1553 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
75 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1986 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
23 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2005 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
4214 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2130 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2878 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
171 Morohashi
3406 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
58 New Nelson (John Haig)
2094 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2236 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a3.29 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-2 SKIP code
4-3-4 SKIP code
4471.2 Four corner code
1-44-73 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e5f Unicode hex code