滝

See also: 瀧 and 泷

Translingual

Traditional	瀧
Shinjitai	滝
Simplified	泷

Han character

滝 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水卜廿山 (EYTU), four-corner 3011₆, composition ⿰氵竜)

Related characters

• 瀧 (Traditional Chinese and Japanese kyūjitai)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 643, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18067
• Dae Jaweon: page 1050, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1706, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6EDD

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 滝 – see 瀧 (“appearance of raining; wet; soaked; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 瀧).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02335-001

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Japanese

Shinjitai	滝
Kyūjitai	瀧

Kanji

滝

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 瀧)

1. waterfall, cascade
2. rapids

Readings

• Go-on: ろう (rō)^{←ろう (rou, historical)}
• Kan-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kun: たき (taki, 滝, Jōyō)^{←たき (taki, 滝, historical)}
• Nanori: らき (raki)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
滝
たき Grade: S
kun’yomi

Alternative spellings
瀧 (kyūjitai) 瀑

/taki₁/ → /taki/

From Old Japanese.

Noun

1. waterfall

   c. 1005, Shūi Wakashū (book 8, poem 1035), text here (also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 54)

   滝(たき)の音(おと)は絶(た)えて久(ひさ)しくなりぬれど名(な)こそ流(なが)れてなほ聞(き)こえけれ

   taki no oto wa taete hisashiku narinuredo na koso nagarete nao kikoekere

   The waterfall's sound faded into nothingness a long time ago―but its name has come down still to be heard today.

2. (archaic) rapids

   c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 15, poem 3617:

   , text here

   伊波婆之流(いはばしる)多伎(たき)毛登杼呂尓(もとどろに)鳴(なく)蝉(せみ)乃(の)許恵乎之伎氣婆(こゑをしきけば)京師(みやこ)之於毛保由(しおもほゆ) [Man'yōgana]

   石(いは)走(ばし)る滝(たき)もとどろに鳴(な)く蝉(せみ)の声(こゑ)をし聞(き)けば都(みやこ)し思(おも)ほゆ [Modern spelling]

   iwa-bashiru taki mo todoro ni naku semi no koe o shikikeba miyako shi omōyu

   (please add an English translation of this example)

Synonyms

• (waterfall): 瀑(ばく)布(ふ) (bakufu)
• (rapids): 急流(きゅうりゅう) (kyūryū), 滝川(たきがわ) (takigawa)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 滝汗(たきあせ) (takiase, “profuse sweating”)
• 滝口(たきぐち) (takiguchi, “top of a waterfall”)
• 滝壷(たきつぼ) (takitsubo)
• 滝(たき)登(のぼ)り (takinobori)
• 男(お)滝(だき), 雄(お)滝(だき) (odaki)
• 小(お)滝(だき) (odaki, “cascade”)
• 枯滝(かれたき), 枯(か)れ滝(たき) (karetaki)
• 涸滝(かれたき), 涸(か)れ滝(たき) (karetaki)
• 白滝(しらたき) (shirataki)
• 女(め)滝(だき), 雌(め)滝(だき) (medaki)

Proper noun

1. A placename.
2. a surname

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Korean

Hanja

滝 (eumhun 젖을 롱 (jeojeul rong), word-initial (South Korea) 젖을 농 (jeojeul nong))

1. Alternative form of 瀧

References

• Zonmal.com Hanja Dictionary (존말닷컴 한자사전／漢字辭典) (2002-2005). [1]

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Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• 瀧 (sông)
• 瀧 (rồng)
• 雙 (suông)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 竜 (long)

Han character

滝: Nôm readings: sông, lùng, sòng, suồng, trong, rông, rồng, suông, long

1. Nôm form of sông (“river”).