泉 — spring, fountain

いずみ泉 spring

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+6CC9 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1086 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

spring
fountain

word

いずみ izumi 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).

泉(いずみ) izumi spring 小(こ) 泉(いずみ) koizumi Koizumi (surname)

せん sen On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

温(おん) 泉(せん) onsen hot spring 源(げん) 泉(せん) gensen source

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

しろい白 white #106

みず水 water #85

Used as component in (2)

せん線 line せん腺 gland

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#85 水 water