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水 kanji
water
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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On readings
スイ
Kun readings
みずみず-
Words with 水
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —沢水困kun (hexagram 47 of the I Ching: oppression)
- —水風井jing (hexagram 48 of the I Ching: the well)
- —風水渙huan (hexagram 59 of the I Ching: dispersion)
- —水沢節jie (hexagram 60 of the I Ching: limitation)
- —御供水water offered to the gods and Buddha
- —脳水腫hydrocephalus
- —白水社Hakusuisha (publisher)
- —水利部Ministry of Water Resources (China)
- —水平社Burakumin rights organization (1922-1942)
- —水声社Suiseisha (publisher)
- —水化学water chemistry; hydrochemistry
- —放水量amount of water discharged (e.g. from a dam); released water volume
- —水夫長boatswain
- —洪水吐spillway (esp. for floodwater management)
- —甘露水sweetened water; sugar water; syrup; nectar
- —一衣帯水(being separated only by a) narrow strip of water; narrow strait (channel, river)
- —塩化水素hydrogen chloride
- —加圧水炉pressurized water reactor; pressurised water reactor; PWR
- —加水分解hydrolysis
- —我田引水seeking one's own interests; straining (the interpretation or argument) to suit one's own interests; drawing water for one's own field