漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
滝: waterfall, rapids
Also: cascade
JLPT N113 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
氵 carries the meaning · 竜 gives the sound
13 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
たきtaki · kun'yomi · on its own
- 滝たきwaterfall
- 滝川たきがわrapids
- 滝口たきぐちtop of a waterfall
Also read ロウ, ソウ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
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.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 泷 · traditional 瀧 · lóng
Three different forms: Japanese 滝, simplified 泷, traditional 瀧.
- Simplified
- 泷 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 瀧 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin lóng 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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