Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
tide, salt water, opportunity
Kun:
しおうしお
On:
チョウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
1231 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 潮流 【チョウリュウ】 tide, tidal current, tendency, drift, trend
  • 潮位 【チョウイ】 tide level
  • 思潮 【シチョウ】 trend of thought
  • 退潮 【タイチョウ】 ebb tide, waning fortunes

Kun reading compounds

  • 潮 【しお】 tide, current, sea water, opportunity, chance, thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
  • 潮風 【しおかぜ】 salty sea breeze, salt wind
  • 黒潮 【くろしお】 Kuroshio Current, Japan Current
  • 赤潮 【あかしお】 red tide
  • 潮 【しお】 tide, current, sea water, opportunity, chance, thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
  • 潮汁 【うしおじる】 thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
  • 夕潮 【ゆうしお】 evening tide

Readings

Japanese names:
いた
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chao2
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • agua de mar
  • marea
  • tendencia
  • oportunidad

Portuguese

  • maré
  • água salgada
  • oportunidade

French

  • marée
  • eau salée
  • opportunité
952 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
941 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1105 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2702 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
980 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1504 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2275 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
468 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
476 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1508 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1252 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
916 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
516 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
675 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
143 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18277P Morohashi
739 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3336 New Nelson (John Haig)
141 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
152 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
988 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
346 2001 Kanji
3a12.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-12 SKIP code
3712.0 Four corner code
1-36-12 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f6e Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
river 巛 (川, 巜)
Parts:
Variants:
state, province
Kun:
On:
シュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
386 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 州 【シュウ】 state (of the US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.), province (e.g. of Canada), county (e.g. of the UK), region (e.g. of Italy), canton, oblast, continent, province (of Japan), province (of ancient China), prefecture, department, dear
  • 州政府 【シュウセイフ】 state government
  • 広州 【コウシュウ】 Guangzhou (China), Canton
  • 沿海州 【エンカイシュウ】 Primorskaya Oblast (Russia)
  • 州 【ス】 sandbank, sandbar
  • 洲浜 【スハマ】 sandy beach, sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form, designs and objects with a wavy pattern, sweet mochi cake
  • 白州 【シラス】 white sandbar, white sandbank, area in a garden or entrance of a house laid with white sand or pebbles, gravel separating a noh stage from the audience, court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand
  • 中州 【ナカス】 sandbank (in a river), sandbar

Kun reading compounds

  • 州 【す】 sandbank, sandbar
  • 洲浜 【すはま】 sandy beach, sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form, designs and objects with a wavy pattern, sweet mochi cake
  • 白州 【しらす】 white sandbar, white sandbank, area in a garden or entrance of a house laid with white sand or pebbles, gravel separating a noh stage from the audience, court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand
  • 中州 【なかす】 sandbank (in a river), sandbar

Readings

Japanese names:
くに
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhou1
Korean:
ju

Spanish

  • estado
  • provincia
  • banco de arena

Portuguese

  • estado
  • província

French

  • province
  • état
424 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
320 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
304 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
542 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
99 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
445 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
490 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
224 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
195 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
195 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
553 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
549 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
64 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
39 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
40 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
130 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8678 Morohashi
57 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1529 New Nelson (John Haig)
128 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
135 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
271 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1254 2001 Kanji
2f4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-4 SKIP code
1-1-5 SKIP code
3200.0 Four corner code
1-29-03 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5dde Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
word, speech, language
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
301 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 語 【ゴ】 word, language, speech
  • 語学 【ゴガク】 study of foreign languages, linguistics
  • 標語 【ヒョウゴ】 motto, slogan, catchword
  • 造語 【ゾウゴ】 coinage, invention of a new word, coined word

Kun reading compounds

  • 語る 【かたる】 to talk about, to speak of, to tell, to narrate, to recite, to chant, to indicate, to show
  • 語るに落ちる 【かたるにおちる】 to let slip a secret, to let the cat out of the bag
  • 語らう 【かたらう】 to talk, to tell, to recite, to pledge, to conspire with

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yu3, yu4
Korean:
eo

Spanish

  • palabra
  • discurso
  • lenguaje
  • hablar
  • conversar
  • narrar

Portuguese

  • palavra
  • discurso
  • língua

French

  • langage
  • mot
  • raconter
209 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
124 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
112 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
274 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4374 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
231 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
87 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2136 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
67 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
67 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
154 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1685 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1944 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1040 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1402 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
353 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35533 Morohashi
1543 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5628 New Nelson (John Haig)
347 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
371 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
211 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
231 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3077 2001 Kanji
7a7.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-7 SKIP code
0166.1 Four corner code
1-24-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8a9e Unicode hex code