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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

滴: drip, drop

JLPT N214 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

氵 carries the meaning · 啇 gives the sound

14 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

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

Three readings, and the words that use each

テキteki · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 点滴てんてきintravenous drip
  • 水滴すいてきdrop of water
  • 雨滴うてきraindrops
  • 滴下するてきかするdrip, drop, distill

しずくshizuku · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 滴しずくdrop, drip [n.]

したたるshitataru · kun'yomi

  • 滴るしたたるdrip, drop, trickle

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 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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啇

Also built on 啇

滴 takes the 啇 family's reading, テキ (teki).

Also read テキ

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
滴 drip · 氵
vs適 suitable · ⻌
滴 has 氵 where 適 has ⻌.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · dī

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

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

Pinyin dī 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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