Memory phrase for the Kanji: 湯


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Meaning hot water, bath

Pronunciation


yu

Explanation

Left: water 氵, right: sunrise 旦 (= sun 日 above horizon 一) together with sunrays 勿) as: warming sun (cf. 易)

Mnemonic


 
Water with warming sunrays changes into: hot water.

Radicals

waterThe radical sanzui 氵 is a short form of water 水
sun rise
warming sun, easy, simpleShows the sunrise 旦 of the sun 日 over the ground 一 with the warming rays and indicates the warming at the beginning of the day.
sunbeams
simple
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 Vocabulary

 hot water
湯治 とうじ  hot-spring cure, taking the baths
銭湯 せんとう  Sento (traditional public bathhouse)
湯気 ゆげ  steam, vapour
茶の湯 ちゃのゆ  tea ceremony
湯飲み ゆのみ  teacup
熱湯 ねっとう  boiling water


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