沢

See also 澤, and 泽

Translingual

shinjitai	沢
simplified	泽
traditional	澤

Han character

沢 (radical 85 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水尸人 (ESO), composition ⿰氵尺)

1. marsh, swamp
2. grace, brilliance

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 612, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17234
• Dae Jaweon: page 1005, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 3, page 1574, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6CA2

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Japanese

Kanji

沢 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: たく (taku)
• Kun: さわ (sawa), うるおす (uruosu), うるおい (uruoi)

Compounds

• 梅沢 (Umezawa, a surname)
• 藤沢 (Fujisawa, a surname)
• 大沢 (Ōsawa, a surname)
• 中沢 (Nakazawa, a surname)

Usage notes

Commonly found as part of a surname, usually with reading さわ (sawa) or ざわ (zawa).

Noun

沢 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai 澤, hiragana さわ, romaji sawa)

1. a mountain stream; a stream near its headwaters
2. swamp; marsh; wetlands

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Korean

Hanja

沢 (hangeul 택, 석, revised taek, seok, McCune-Reischauer t'aek, sŏk, Yale thayk, sek)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

沢 (pinyin ōu (ou1), zé (ze2), Wade-Giles ou¹, tse²)