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淦

淦 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 11 strokes

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 船中に滲みた水。
  2. 湿った泥土。
  3. 浅い。
  4. 汲む。
  5. 河心の速い水流。急落する瀑布。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

『形声』。「水」+音符「金」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

bilge water

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • カン
  • コン
Kun (native)
  • あか
Other languages
  • 拼音gan4
  • 한글gam
  • Hán-ViệtCam

Basics

Strokes
11 strokes
Radical
水(みず)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+6DE6

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰氵金

Words using this kanji

  • 淦あかbilge water
  • 淦水かんすい何らかの原因で船底にたまる水。あかみず。あか。bilge water

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(3 results)

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Lookup codes

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