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水 means 'water'

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Strokes : 4    Radical number: 85    Frequency: 146   JLPT: N5    Usefulness: 1    Study set: 1-3    Grade: 1   Intermediate lesson: 3    Beginner lesson: 13   Begins 592 words   Used in 1239 words   Used in 5173 names   Component in 103 kanji (20 Jōyō)
Jōyō (常用)
Common readings
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   スイ
Kun
   みず water
Additional readings
Name    うず   ずみ   つ   ど   み   みさ   みつ   みな   みん
Variants
氵   ⺢   ⽔ (Chinese)   氺   ⺡  
Notes
In mnemonics, we use 'splash' when looks like ⺢ (water) with no 亅 (hook) down the middle, e.g. as in 渋 (astringent)
We can't live without water, and neither can many kanji, including 氷 (ice), 活 (activity), and 泰 (peaceful).
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Most useful words by reading
In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 水 is used 58 times, read 2 ways (with 1 variation).
Across all words in Japanese, 水 is used 1160 times, read 2 ways (with 4 variations).
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スイ : 852 words FIND ALL
す い よ う び 3
adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)
Wednesday
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スイ (read as ずい) : 14 words FIND ALL
こ う ず い 0 こ う ず い 1
noun
flood
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みず : 282 words FIND ALL
み ず 0
noun
1. water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water)  (see also: 湯; み is generally used in compounds)
2. fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid
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うず: 1 word. FIND ALL
そ う ず 0
noun
water-filled bamboo tube in Japanese garden which clacks against a stone when emptied
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み: 7 words. FIND ALL
た る み 2
noun
waterfall  (see also: 滝; archaic)
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みな: 4 words. FIND ALL
み な ま た び ょ う 0
noun
Minamata disease
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An additional 81 less common words include 水 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
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Additional data
Henshall: 16 (originally: 40)  Joy o' Kanji : 40  Key to Kanji: 585 

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水
スイ   みず water   
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