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

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