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潮

JLPT N1 SL6 15 strokes Frequency: #1231

Meanings

Tide, Salt Water, Opportunity

Radicals

氵

Decomposition

⿰氵朝

Etymology

Pictophonetic: water

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 15

Stroke Order

1 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

2 dot bottom-to-top

3 rising bottom-to-top

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 horizontal bottom-to-top

10 horizontal bottom-to-top

11 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

12 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

13 hook right-to-left

14 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

15 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

チョウ chou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

しお shio

うしお ushio

Words Using This Kanji

119 words total

Other (20 words)

夕潮ゆうしお

evening tide

潮の目しおのめ

point where two ocean currents meet (e.g. a warm current and a cold current)

supratidal zone

high-water mark

subtidal zone

low-water mark

intertidal zone

estuary

tidal river

tidal flat

pleasant tides of spring

干潮かんちょう

low tide

潮吹貝しおふきがい

Mactra veneriformis (species of trough shell)

tide table

tidal force

tidal bore

tide watching (esp. in the Naruto Strait)

彼岸潮ひがんじお

equinoctial tide

顔面潮紅がんめんちょうこう

hot flush

荒潮あらしお

violent tide

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