渦
Stroke order
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Origin of the character
形声。「水」+音符「咼」。「うず」を意味する漢語｛渦｝を表す字。
Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.
Meaning
whirlpool, eddy, vortex
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- カHS
- Kun (native)
- うずJHS
- Other languages
- 拼音wo1
- 拼音guo1
- 한글wa
- Hán-ViệtQua
- Hán-ViệtOa
Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.
Basics
- Strokes
- 12 strokes
- Radical
- 水(みず)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Unicode
U+6E26
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰氵咼
Words using this kanji
- 渦うず水などの流体が作る回転した流れ。whirlpool, swirl, eddy, vortex
- 渦中かちゅう渦の中。うずまきの中。 事件や問題の中心。 さなか。まっただなか。vortex, maelstrom, whirlpool, (in the middle of a) scandal
- 渦巻きうずまきwhirlpool, maelstrom, vortex, eddy
- 渦巻くうずまくto whirl, to eddy, to swirl, to curl (of smoke)
- 渦状かじょうspiral
- 渦潮うずしおwhirling tides
- 渦動かどう渦のような動き。うず。vortex
- 渦紋かもんうずまき模様。whirlpool design
- 渦流かりゅうswirling current, eddy, whirlpool, vortex
- 渦線かせんspiral line, line vortex, vortex line, circumvolution
- 渦雷からいcyclonic thunder-storm
- 渦糸うずいとvortex filament, vortex line
- 渦状文かじょうもんspiral pattern
- 渦虫類うずむしるいturbellarians
- 渦電流うずでんりゅうeddy current
- 渦巻き形うずまきがたspiral (shape), swirl
- 渦巻星雲うずまきせいうんspiral nebula
- 渦巻き線うずまきせんspiral
- 渦巻銀河うずまきぎんがバルジと円盤から成り、上から見ると渦を巻いているように見える銀河。spiral galaxy
- 渦状銀河かじょうぎんがspiral galaxy
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
Similar-looking kanji
- 禍One part differs
- 喎One part differs
- 堝One part differs
- 媧One part differs
- 猧One part differs
- 腡One part differs
Selected automatically by comparing composition (IDS). “Same composition” means the parts and their arrangement match.
Lookup codes
- SKIP
1-3-9- Four Corner
3712.7- Spahn–Hadamitzky
3a9.36- Heisig
- 1387
- Nelson
- 2629