漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
泉: spring, fountain
白 and 水 carry the meaning
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
センsen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 温泉おんせんonsen, hot spring, spa
- 冷泉れいせんcold mineral spring
- 鉱泉こうせんmineral spring
- 源泉げんせんsource
- 天然温泉てんねんおんせんnatural hot spring
いずみizumi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 泉いずみspring, fountain
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)白 spring mouth + 水 water
Pictogram (象形) or ideogrammic compound (會意): 白 (“spring mouth”) + 水 (“water”) – water flowing from the source of a spring.
Source: Wiktionary, 泉 (rev. 94363244), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“White (白) + water = the pure, 'white' water bubbling up from a clear spring deep in the earth.”
Connections
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · quán
Same form: 泉 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 泉 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 泉 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin quán most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.