淡
faint; thin; pale; fleeting
11 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 1436.
Readings
- タン (on reading): 淡水 (たんすい) fresh water (i.e. not salt water); 淡々 (たんたん) uninterested
- あわい (kun reading): 淡い (あわい) light (color, taste, etc.); 阪神・淡路大震災 (はんしんあわじだいしんさい) Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake (1995)
Components
Words using 淡
- 淡水 (たんすい) fresh water (i.e. not salt water)
- 淡々 (たんたん) uninterested
- 淡黄 (たんこう) pale yellow
- 冷淡 (れいたん) cool
- 淡水魚 (たんすいぎょ) freshwater fish
- 淡い (あわい) light (color, taste, etc.)
- 阪神・淡路大震災 (はんしんあわじだいしんさい) Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake (1995)
- 淡路 (あわじ) Awaji (former province located on Awaji Island in present-day Hyōgo Prefecture)
- 淡雪 (あわゆき) light snow
- 淡路結び (あわじむすび) var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki
48 words in all.