湾
Stroke order
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Origin of the character
「灣」の略体（彎」→「弯」の類推）。「灣」については灣#字源の項目を参照。
Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.
Meaning
gulf, bay, inlet
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- ワンJHS
- Kun (native)
- いりえ
- Other languages
- 拼音wan1
- 한글man
- Hán-ViệtLoan
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 2
- Unicode
U+6E7E
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰氵弯
Words using this kanji
- 湾岸わんがん湾内の沿岸。gulf coast, bay coast
- 湾わん（ワン）海岸が陸地に入り込んでいるところ。bay, gulf, inlet
- 湾曲わんきょく弓形に曲がること。curve, bend, crook
- 湾入わんにゅう湖沼や海洋が陸地に弓状に入り込むこと。embayment, indentation (of a shoreline)
- 湾口わんこう湾において外海への出入り口。entrance to a bay, mouth of a bay
- 湾流わんりゅうメキシコ湾に発源し、北アメリカ東岸をフロリダ半島沿いに進み、北欧まで流れて北大西洋海流へと移行する大規模な暖流。太平洋の黒潮に対比される。the Gulf Stream
- 湾頭わんとう湾のほとり。bay shore
- 湾内わんない湾の内側。湾の中。inside the bay
- 湾外わんがい湾の外側の海。beyond the bay
- 湾生わんせいJapanese born in Taiwan during Japanese rule, campylotropous, sinuate
- 湾処ワンド入り江のこと。(riverine) lagoon, fluvial lagoon
- 湾曲部わんきょくぶbend, flexure, bight
- 湾岸戦争わんがんせんそうGulf War (1990-1991)
- 湾岸危機わんがんききGulf War (1990), Persian Gulf crisis
- 湾岸紛争わんがんふんそうGulf War (1990)
- 湾岸諸国わんがんしょこくGulf states, states bordering the Persian Gulf
- 湾岸石油わんがんせきゆGulf Oil Corporation
- 湾岸戦争症候群わんがんせんそうしょうこうぐんGulf War syndrome
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
Variants
Lookup codes
- SKIP
1-3-9- Four Corner
3012.7- Spahn–Hadamitzky
3a9.15- Heisig
- 1886
- Nelson
- 2627