Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
thirst, dry up, parch
Kun:
かわ.く
On:
カツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1944 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 渇 【カツ】 thirst
  • 渇望 【カツボウ】 craving, longing, thirsting
  • 枯渇 【コカツ】 drying up, running dry, running out, being exhausted, being drained
  • 口渇 【コウカツ】 thirst, dry mouth, -dipsia

Kun reading compounds

  • 渇く 【かわく】 to be thirsty, to feel thirsty, to thirst for, to crave

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ke3
Korean:
gal, geol

Spanish

  • seco
  • reseco
  • sed
  • secar
  • resecar
  • tener sed

Portuguese

  • sede
  • seca
  • ressecar-se

French

  • soif
  • sécheresse
1087 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1951 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2596 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1266 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1481 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1622 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1731 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1394 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1205 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
627 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
379 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
473 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
460 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17748 Morohashi
515 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3195 New Nelson (John Haig)
451 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
488 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1453 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
352 2001 Kanji
3a8.13 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
3612.7 Four corner code
1-19-73 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6e07 Unicode hex code