One of the best Japanese Kanji dictionary.

Share this page

Kanji Detail for 槽 - "tank, vat, trough"

槽

  • Meaning

    槽 means "tank, vat, trough."

    1. Tank - A container for liquids; a reservoir.

    2. Trough - A long, narrow container.

    3. Vat - A large vessel for holding liquids.

  • Words using 槽

    • 水槽 すいそう Listen water tank; cistern; fish tank
    • 浴槽 よくそう Listen bathtub
    • 浄化槽 じょうかそう Listen water-purification tank; septic tank

  • Tattoo check: 槽

    • Verified meaning: tank, vat, trough
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    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.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    vat; tub; tank

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    trough; manger; vat, tank; groove; a distillery

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    trough; manger; groove; channel; (Tw) (computing) hard drive

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    trough, manger; vat, tank; distillery

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

    A feeding vessel for livestock. Such as a horse trough. | Attached to the upper end of a pipa (lute) to support the strings. Such as stone trough, sandalwood trough. | Anything with high sides and a depressed center is called 槽. Such as an ink trough, bathtub.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    soh(ソウ) ソウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    fune(ふね) ふね

  • Strokes

    tip

    15 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    木 (ki・kihen)

  • Related Keywords

    tank trough vat boat bucket container barrel basin bin cavity chamber cistern drum hollow pit pond pool receptacle reservoir silo tub vessel well

Sentences including 槽

  • I have pyorrhea.

  • I have a fish tank.

  • Tom filled the bathtub with water.

  • Tom filled the bathtub with water.

  • Tom filled the bathtub with hot water.

  • Somebody had drowned her in the bathtub.

  • The water tank teems with mosquito larvae.

  • Tom spent hours looking at the fish in the tank.

  • He has the water running in the bathtub.

  • The baby was splashing in the bathtub.

More kanji with the radical 木 (ki・kihen)

See all kanji with this radical →

Share This Page

Share this link via

Or copy link