Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

尿: urine

JLPT N17 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

尸 carries the meaning · 水 is drawn in

7 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Oracle bone and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

ニョウnyou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 尿にょうurine
  • 糖尿病とうにょうびょうdiabetes; diabetes mellitus
  • 利尿りにょうdiuresis
  • 尿酸にょうさんuric acid
  • 泌尿器ひにょうきurinary organs

Also read ゆばり, いばり, しと, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Lie down and cover up! This radical has two lives: it can represent the stillness of a body or the protection of a roof.”
More in the 尸 corpse story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
尸

Also built on corpse (尸)

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水

Also built on water (水)

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Also read ニョウ

2 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · niào

Same form: 尿 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
尿 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
尿 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin niào most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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