汁 — juice, soup, broth
しる
汁
juice
Grade S
Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school.
5 strokes
U+6C41
Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard.
Freq #1843
Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common.
Heisig #140
Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.
Meanings
- juice
- soup
- broth
word
しる shiru Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).
Appears in idioms
Components
Composed of
Phono-semantic compound (形声). 氵 (water) gives the semantic field. 十 (jū) provides the phonetic element. Juice, soup, or broth.