泉
Stroke order
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Origin of the character
象形。泉から水の湧くさまを象る。「いずみ」を意味する漢語｛泉｝および「みなもと」を意味する漢語｛源｝を表す字。
Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.
Meaning
spring, fountain
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- センElem.
- Kun (native)
- いずみElem.
- Nanori (used in names)
- いず
- ずい
- ずみ
- ぜい
- ぜん
- の
- Other languages
- 拼音quan2
- 한글cheon
- Hán-ViệtTuyền
- Hán-ViệtToàn
Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.
Basics
- Strokes
- 9 strokes
- Radical
- 水(みず)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 2
- Unicode
U+6CC9
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱白水
Words using this kanji
- 泉いずみ水が湧き出る場所。また、そこから湧き出る水。夏の季語。 （比喩）すべての物事の源流にあたるところ。spring, fountain
- 泉水せんすい泉の水。 庭に作った池。garden pond, miniature lake, fountain
- 泉下せんか黄泉の下。あの世。Hades, the hereafter
- 泉石せんせき泉と岩石。 泉水と庭石。springs and rocks
- 泉熱いずみねつIzumi fever (resembles scarlet fever)
- 泉門せんもん黄泉の入り口。 ひよめき。soft spot (in the skull of an infant), fontanelle, fontanel, gates of Hades
- 泉質せんしつ温泉、鉱泉の水の化学的な性質。hot spring water quality, spring quality, hot spring type
- 泉亭せんてい泉水のそばのあずまや。arbor facing a spring (arbour)
- 泉州せんしゅう中華人民共和国・福建省南東部の都市。泉州市。 和泉国（いずみのくに）の別称。Quanzhou (China), Chinchew
- 泉塩せんえんsalt (from a mineral spring)
- 泉漳語せんしょうごHokkien (language)
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
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Lookup codes
- SKIP
2-5-4- Four Corner
2623.2- Spahn–Hadamitzky
3a5.33- Heisig
- 140
- Nelson
- 3099