Kanji Detail for 渦 - "whirlpool, vortex, spiral"

渦

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning
渦 means "whirlpool, vortex, spiral."
1. Whirlpool - A spinning body of water.
2. Vortex - A spinning mass that draws things in.
3. Spiral - A curve that winds around.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

whirlpool; eddy; vortex

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

swirl, whirlpool, eddy

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

name of a river

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

eddy, swirl, whirlpool

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

Name of a river. Source is in Tongxu County, Henan. Flows southeast into the Huai. Anhui has Guoyang County. | A water depression. As in 旋渦 (whirlpool), meaning the depression where water flows in circles.
Onyomi

ka(カ)
Kunyomi

uzu(うず)
Strokes

12 strokes
Radical

水氵氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)
Related Keywords
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