Meaning & readings
water
On’yomi スイ
Kun’yomi みず、みず-
Nanori うず、ずみ、つ、ど、み、みさ、みつ、みな、みん
Origin
水 is a pictograph of moving water. The central stroke is the main current of a stream, and the short strokes on either side are the swirls and droplets thrown off to the sides. As the script was regularised the flowing lines were straightened into the shape written today. It has no sound component — the whole character is a picture.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (水).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 4
- Kangxi radical
- 85
- Formation type
- Pictographic or simple
- Grade
- Grade 1 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #223 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+06C34