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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

汁: soup, juice

Also: broth, sap, gravy, pus

JLPT N15 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

氵 carries the meaning · 十 gives the sound

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  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ジュウjuu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 果汁かじゅうfruit juice
  • 胆汁たんじゅうbile; gall

しるshiru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 汁しるjuice; sap
  • 煮汁にじるbroth
  • 汁気しるけjuice

Also read -しる, つゆ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
More in the 氵 water story
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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
氵

Also built on water (氵)

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十

Also built on ten (十)

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汁 takes the 十 family's reading, ジュウ (juu).

Also read ジュウ

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
汁 soup · 十
vs汗 sweat · 干
汁 has 十 where 汗 has 干.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhī

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

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

Pinyin zhī 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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