漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
湾: gulf, bay
Also: inlet
JLPT N212 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 氵water(meaning)
- 弯(sound)
氵 carries the meaning · 弯 gives the sound
12 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ワンwan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 湾わんbay, gulf, inlet
- 湾内わんないinside the bay
- 湾口わんこうentrance or mouth of a bay
- 台湾たいわんTaiwan
- 港湾局こうわんきょくPort and Harbor Authority
- 東京湾とうきょうわんTokyo Bay
- 湾曲するわんきょくするcurve [v.i.]
Also read いりえ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)水 water, as 氵 (meaning) + 彎 (sound)
A type of water.
Source: Wiktionary, 灣 (rev. 87972530), CC BY-SA 4.0
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.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ワン
1 kanji shares this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 灣 · wān
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 湾. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 灣.
- Simplified
- 湾 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 灣 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin wān 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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