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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 (19 words)
高潮堤 こうちょうてい

storm surge barrier

潮吹き穴 しおふきあな

blowhole

潮を吹く しおをふく

to spout (of a whale)

潮害 ちょうがい

tidewater damage

夏潮 なつしお

summer tide

早潮 はやしお

fast tide

潮汐発電 ちょうせきはつでん

tidal power generation

防潮林 ぼうちょうりん

forest planted to protect the shoreline

黒潮大蛇行 くろしおだいだこう

Kuroshio Current

白扇潮招 ハクセンシオマネキ

milky fiddler crab (Austruca lactea)

急潮 きゅうちょう

rapid tide

潮高 ちょうこう

tide level

検潮所 けんちょうじょ

automatic tide-gauge station

青潮 あおしお

"blue tide" phenomenon of an upwelling of oxygen-depleted water

検潮 けんちょう

tide measurement

新潮社 しんちょうしゃ

Shinchosha (publisher)

新潮 しんちょう

Shinchō (magazine and publisher)

黒潮 くろしお

Kuroshio Current

渦潮 うずしお

whirling tides

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