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湖

JLPT N2 SL3 12 strokes Frequency: #1344

Meanings

Lake

Radicals

氵

Decomposition

⿰氵胡

Etymology

Pictophonetic: water

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 12

Stroke Order

1 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

2 dot bottom-to-top

3 rising bottom-left-to-top-right

4 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

5 vertical right-to-left

6 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

7 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-to-top

9 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

10 hook right-to-left

11 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

12 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

コ ko

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

みずうみ mizuumi

Words Using This Kanji

58 words total

Other (20 words)

salt lake

caldera lake

crescentic lake

lagoon

era during mid-1970s dominated by grand champions Wajima and Kitanoumi

輪湖時代りんこじだい

era during mid-1970s dominated by grand champions Wajima and Kitanoumi

貧栄養湖ひんえいようこ

lake with low nutrient level

腐植栄養湖ふしょくえいようこ

dystrophic lake

汽水湖きすいこ

brackish lake

富栄養湖ふえいようこ

nutrient-rich (or eutrophic) lake

oxbow lake

glacial lake

limnology

lake type (i.e. eutrophic, dystrophic, oligotrophic)

湖沼水質保全特別措置法こしょうすいしつほぜんとくべつそちほう

Act on Special Measures concerning Conservation of Lake Water Quality

artificial lake

reservoir

underground lake

fault lake

lake ecosystem

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