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井

JLPT N1 SL4 4 strokes Frequency: #339

Meanings

Well, Well Crib, Town, Community

Radicals

二

Decomposition

⿻二？

Etymology

Pictographic: A mine or well

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 4

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 diagonal top-to-bottom

4 vertical right-to-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

セイ sei

ショウ shou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

い i

Words Using This Kanji

104 words total

Other (20 words)

三尊天井さんぞんてんじょう

head and shoulders (chartist pattern)

市井の臣しせいのしん

townspeople

組入天井くみいれてんじょう

latticed ceiling

ガラスの天井ガラスのてんじょう

glass ceiling

ガラス天井ガラスてんじょう

glass ceiling

井楼せいろう

wooden watchtower

重力井戸じゅうりょくいど

gravity well (e.g. of a planet)

天井関数てんじょうかんすう

ceiling function

坑井こうせい

winze (mining)

甘井かんせい

well with good-tasting water

深井戸ふかいど

deep well

山井やまい

mountain well

山の井やまのい

mountain well

油井管ゆせいかん

oil well pipe

ガス井ガスせい

(natural) gas well

種井たねい

pool for soaking seed rice before planting

渇に臨みて井を掘るかつにのぞみていをほる

to fail to make timely preparations

福井ふくい

Fukui (city, prefecture)

地熱井ちねつせい

geothermal well

生産井せいさんせい

production well (esp. of geothermal power)

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