水
water
4 strokes. Taught in grade 1. Newspaper frequency rank 223.
Readings
- スイ (on reading): 水泳 (すいえい) swimming; 潜水艦 (せんすいかん) submarine
- みず (kun reading): 水 (みず) water (esp. cool or cold); 水着 (みずぎ) bathing suit
- Read as a whole word: 水鶏 (くいな) rail (any bird of family Rallidae, esp. the water rail, Rallus aquaticus); 塵手水 (ちりちょうず) ritual gestures (squatting, clapping, etc.) indicating that a fight will be clean; 水母の骨 (くらげのほね) something that one would not expect to exist
Components
- 水 radical water
Kanji containing 水
- 承 acquiesce
- 永 eternity
- 泉 spring
- 氷 icicle
- 尿 urine
- 丞 help
- 冰 ice
- 汞 mercury
- 沓 shoes
- 閖 shake while rinsing
- 漿 a drink
- 潁 name of a Chinese river
- 盥 tub
Words using 水
- 水泳 (すいえい) swimming
- 潜水艦 (せんすいかん) submarine
- 洪水 (こうずい) flood
- 香水 (こうすい) perfume
- 水分 (すいぶん) water
- 水 (みず) water (esp. cool or cold)
- 水着 (みずぎ) bathing suit
- 鼻水 (はなみず) nasal mucus
- スク水 (スクみず) school swimsuit
- 水に流す (みずにながす) to forgive and forget
- 水鶏 (くいな) rail (any bird of family Rallidae, esp. the water rail, Rallus aquaticus)
- 塵手水 (ちりちょうず) ritual gestures (squatting, clapping, etc.) indicating that a fight will be clean
- 水母の骨 (くらげのほね) something that one would not expect to exist
- 水葱 (なぎ) Monochoria korsakowii (species of flowering plant)
- 手水を使う (ちょうずをつかう) to wash one's face and hands
- 水戸黄門 (みとこうもん) Mito Kōmon (televised period drama; 1969-2011)
- 水戸 (みと) Mito (city in Ibaraki)
- 水俣病 (みなまたびょう) Minamata disease
- 水無月 (みなづき) sixth month of the lunar calendar (approx. July)
- 水底 (みなそこ) bottom of the water
1444 words in all.