Meaning & readings
full, fullness, enough, satisfy
Origin
This character combines water (the left component) with a sound hint on the right that suggests the pronunciation. The water radical indicates the character relates to liquids or fullness — like how water fills a container completely. The right side provides a rough sound guide for how to pronounce the character. Over time, the meaning extended from "filled with water" to the broader sense of "full" or "satisfied," whether that fullness is literal or figurative.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 氵
- 廿+両
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 85
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #515 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+06E80