A kanji
水
water
- 4 strokes
- Taught in grade 1 (kyōiku kanji)
- No. 223 of 2,500 in newspapers
On'yomi
スイ
Kun'yomi
みず、みず-
Stroke order
Stroke order is from KanjiVG, copyright Ulrich Apel, under CC BY-SA 3.0. A kanji is drawn only where KanjiVG and KANJIDIC2 count the same number of strokes.
Shapes inside it
The shapes EDRDG's KRADFILE lists 水 as containing. It is a lookup aid for finding a kanji by its parts: it says what the character contains, not where it comes from, and a shape need not be a kanji.
Written with 水 31 words
Grouped by JLPT level, easiest first, and oldest first within a level.
JLPT N5 · 2 words
JLPT N4 · 2 words
JLPT N3 · 2 words
JLPT N2 · 17 words
- 水面すいめんwater's surface
- 海水浴かいすいよくsea bathing, seawater bath
- 水着みずぎbathing suit (woman's)
- 水蒸気すいじょうきwater vapor, steam
- 淡水たんすいfresh water
- 地下水ちかすいunderground water
- 水素すいそhydrogen
- 水産すいさんmarine products, fisheries
- 水滴すいてきdrop of water
- 水筒すいとうcanteen, flask, water bottle
- 水分すいぶんmoisture
- 水平すいへいlevel, horizontal
- 水平線すいへいせんhorizon
- 下水げすいdrainage, sewage, ditch, gutter, sewerage
- 香水こうすいperfume
- 噴水ふんすいwater fountain
- 断水だんすいwater outage
JLPT N1 · 8 words
Some of these words show it as a part of their “Taken apart” row: see the words taken apart with 水.
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