Meaning & readings
hot water, bath, hot spring
On’yomi トウ
Kun’yomi ゆ
Origin
This character combines water on the left with a sound hint on the right. The water component (氵) shows this character relates to liquids, and specifically came to mean hot water or a bath. The right side is a sound hint that helps indicate how to pronounce the character—it doesn't contribute to the meaning itself. By pairing the water radical with this phonetic guide, the character effectively conveys both "water" and how it should be read aloud.
Components
- 氵
- 昜
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 85
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #1356 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+06E6F