RTK / HeisigFrame #137
水
water
WK Level: 2
Strokes: 4
JLPT: N5
Meanings
water RTK
Mnemonic Aliases
Narrative names used in mnemonics for this kanji.
completely soaked in watertoo much waterwater lilieswater missilewaterswater soldiers
Community Mnemonic
▲ 320 votes
The kanji for water is an abstract primitive itself, so unless one is willing to break down its etymological development, it should just simply be memorized by strokes; constructing a story is not necessarily useful unless it strongly denotes its shape (I find that Heisig's story doesn't do this).
Source: Kanji Koohii community
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On'yomi
すい
Kun'yomi
みず