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井 means 'well'

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Strokes : 4 Frequency: 272 JLPT: N1 Usefulness: 5 Study set: 5-1 Grade: 8 Intermediate lesson: - Beginner lesson: - Begins 27 words Used in 84 words Used in 8123 names Component in 28 kanji (7 Jōyō)

Jōyō (常用)

Common readings

On

セイショウ

Kun

い a well

Additional readings

Name いのさいひ

Notes

A Joy o' Kanji essay is available for 井 - click the badge to download

Why have the Japanese worshipped well water, shouted down wells, and jokingly called the Edo era the "Ido" era? How do people use the shape of a well in everything from kimono cloth to business slang? How does 井 figure into economic and political discussions? Find out all of this and much more, including the role of wells in folktales, proverbs, and Haruki Murakami's fiction.

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Most useful words by reading

In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 井 is used 2 times, read 2 ways.

Across all words in Japanese, 井 is used 78 times, read 3 ways.

Showing: Usage across all words in Japanese Usage in the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese

ショウ (read as じょう) : 21 words FIND ALL

てんじょう

noun

ceiling; ceiling price

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セイ : 18 words FIND ALL

noun

oil well

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い : 39 words FIND ALL

noun

water well

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Additional data

Henshall: 1470 Joy o' Kanji : 1470 Key to Kanji: -

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井

セイショウい a well

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Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.

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