水
water
Readings
On'yomi (音読み)
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
Nanori (名乗り)
Stroke Order
4 / 4
Information
Grade:1
Strokes:4
JLPT:5
Frequency:223
Vocabulary
スイ
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 飲料水 | インリョウスイ | drinking water |
| 汚水 | オスイ | filthy water; sewage |
| 下水 | ゲスイ | drainage; ditch; gutter; sewerage; sewage; black water |
| 下水道 | ゲスイドウ | sewer; sewer system; sewerage; drain |
| 海水 | カイスイ | seawater; saltwater |
Other
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 渇水 | かっすい | water shortage |
| 水蛭子 | えびす | Ebisu; god of fishing and commerce |
| 呼び水 | よびみず | pump-priming; rousing; stimulation |
| 洪水 | こうずい | flood; flooding |
| 水 | みず | water (esp. cool or cold); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout; break granted to wrestlers engaged in a prolonged bout |
Visually Similar Kanji
These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes
永
eternity, lengthy, long
Grade 5JLPT 2
氷
congeal, freeze, hail, ice, icicle
Grade 3JLPT 2
尿
urine
Grade 8JLPT 1
入
enter, insert
Grade 1JLPT 5
扱
entertain, handle, strip, thresh
Grade 8JLPT 1
小
little, small
Grade 1JLPT 5
尺
Japanese foot, measure, rule, scale, shaku
Grade 6JLPT 1
匁
(kokuji), 3.75 grams, monme
Grade 9JLPT 1
父
father
Grade 2JLPT 5
八
eight, eight radical (no. 12)
Grade 1JLPT 5