水

Chinese

1. water

In Japanese,

水 mean Water (for detailed description, look at the Meaning section). 水 is written as shown in Writing section below. 水's onyomi, kunyomi and/or other readings are in Reading section. 水's technical information is in the Technical and other info section.

• Writing
  • Written looks like

http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/ji/gifs/200x200/3169.gif

• • You can see how to write it here (need *.mov file player).
  • You can also try to write it yourself here. (need Java support)
  • 水 alternatively is written as 氵 (for example, in characters 漢, .. on the left of the characters).
  • 水 cannot be broken down (analysed) to radicals because it is a radical (number 85) itself, however it can be broken down to strokes. It has 3 distinc strokes (look the movie). However, it is considered to be 4 stokes character (look Technical and other info).

• Meaning (Meanings in compounds and the compounds, (analysed) with pronunciation)
  • 水 (mi.zu) mean water (noun). Note that the kunyomi reading みず (mizu) is used in its pronunciation. You can hear it pronunced. (need *.au file player)
  • 水曜日 (su.i,yo.u,bi) mean Wednesday - literally, "Water's week-day". Note that the onyomi reading スイ (sui) is used in its pronunciation. You can hear it pronunced. (need *.au file player)
  • 水死 (su.i.shi) mean drowning - literally, "water-death".
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• Reading (and pronunciations)
  • onyomi: スイ (su.i)
  • kunyomi: みず (mi.zu), みず-. You can hear it pronunced. (need *.au file player)
  • nanori reading: うず (u.zu), ずみ (zu.mi), つ (tsu), ど (do), み (mi), みさ (mi.sa), みつ (mi.tsu), みな (mi.na), みん (mi.n)

• Technical and other info:
  • 水 number of strokes is: 4
  • 水 radical number is 85. (水 is 85th radical itself and 水 frequently appears as 氵 in kanji.)