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水 kanji
water
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
スイ
Kun readings
みずみず-
Words with 水
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —水月water and the Moon; the Moon reflected on the water; solar plexus (as a pressure point in martial arts)
- —香水scented water used for purification; water offering to Buddha
- —廃水wastewater; waste water; liquid waste; black water
- —飲水(act of) drinking water
- —吐水water release
- —水軍navy (esp. the Japanese navy prior to the 1850s)
- —寒水cold water; water in midwinter
- —淦水bilge water
- —抱水hydrate
- —水天water and sky; Varuna; Vedic god of water and sky (adopted into Buddhism as god of water and protector of the west)
- —水添hydrogenation
- —神水water offered to God; water drunk before an altar to symbolize the making of a vow; miracle-working water; water which gathers in the nodes of bamboo after falling as rain at noon on the 5th day of the 5th month (lunar calendar), thought to be effective when used in medicines
- —造水desalination; desalinization
- —旱水drought and floods
- —保水water retention
- —水彩watercolor painting
- —水濠water jump (on a racetrack, etc.); moat (around a castle, etc.)
- —水族aquatic fauna; aquatic animals
- —透水permeation (e.g. of water); percolation; seepage
- —採水water collection; water sampling