湯 — hot water, bath, hot spring

ゆ湯 hot water

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes

U+6E6F Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1356 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #585 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

hot water
bath
hot spring

word

ゆ yu 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).

湯(ゆ) yu hot water お湯(ゆ) oyu hot water

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

銭(せん) 湯(とう) sentou public bathhouse

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

昜 sun rising

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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