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Kanji Detail for 井 - "well, town"

井

  • Meaning

    井 means "well, town."

    1. Well - A water well; a well curb.

    2. Town - An inhabited place; because people gather and live around wells.

  • Words using 井

    • 天井 てんじょう Listen ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling
    • 井戸 いど Listen water well
    • 油井 ゆせい Listen oil well
    • 筒井 つつい Listen round well

  • Four-character idioms with 井

    • 天井桟敷 てんじょうさじき Listen gallery (in a theatre); upper gallery; cheap seats
    • 市井無頼 しせいぶらい Listen urban villain; street hoodlum
    • 相碁井目 あいごせいもく Listen in every game or play, differences in skill between individuals can be substantial

  • Tattoo check: 井

    • Verified meaning: well, town
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read い, いづつ, いのもと, しょう)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 井

    Surnames 井(い)Listen 井(いづつ)Listen 井(いのもと)Listen 井(しょう)Listen 井(めぐみ)Listen 井(わかし)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    well; well crib; town; community

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    well, mine shaft, pit; surname; 22nd lunar mansion, determinative star μ Geminorum (Tejat); hexagram ䷯

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    Jing, one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy; surname Jing

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    well, mine shaft, pit

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Digging the ground to get water. In ancient times, set up within markets for washing convenience, hence markets are also called 市井. Also set up in villages for public drawing of water, hence villages are also called 鄉井. | An ancient land division system. The Zhou system used 900 mu as one 井. (Mencius) "A square li is one well. A well is 900 mu." Meaning a square li of land is divided into nine sections, each section 100 mu. The center is public field, the surrounding eight families each receive one section as private field. The paths between fields look like the character 井, hence called 井. | Neat and orderly appearance. Such as 秩序井然 (orderly), 井井有條 (well-organized). | A star name. One of the Twenty-Eight Mansions.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    sei(セイ) セイ

    shoh(ショウ) ショウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    i(い) い

  • Strokes

    tip

    4 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    二 (ni)

  • Related Keywords

    well town street community

Sentences including 井

  • There was no water in the well.

  • I had a very good time at karuizawa.

  • I'm going to fukui.

  • A well is a place where you can get water.

  • The water of this well is good to drink.

  • He fetched some water from the well.

  • We leave for karuizawa this afternoon.

  • There was little water in the well.

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