Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

江: creek, inlet

Also: bay

JLPT N16 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

氵 carries the meaning · 工 gives the sound

6 strokes
  • Bronze · Warring States
  • Today

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

Two readings, and the words that use each

コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 江上こうじょう(on the) bank of a large river

えe · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 江えinlet; bay
  • 江戸えどEdo (shogunate capital
  • 堀江ほりえcanal
  • 江戸っ子えどっこ(true) Tokyoite; Edoite; Tokyo native
  • 江戸時代えどじだいEdo period (1603-1868)

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

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
繋がり
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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工

Also built on work (工)

All 12

江 takes the 工 family's reading, コウ (kou).

Also read コウ

96 kanji share this on'yomiAll 96

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
江 creek · 工
vs汗 sweat · 干
江 has 工 where 汗 has 干.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jiāng

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

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

Pinyin jiāng 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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