Kanji Detail for 潑 - "splash, vigorous"

潑

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
潑 means "splash, vigorous."
1. Splash - To pour; to spray; to scatter water; for water to spray.
2. Vigorous - Full of energy.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

pour; splash; water; sprinkle; violent; malignant

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

pour, splash, water, sprinkle; violent, malignant

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

to splash; to spill; rough and coarse; brutish

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to pour, to splash, to sprinkle, to water

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

To throw away water. Water accidentally spilling from a container is also called 潑. | 活潑. Appearance of free and lively movement. | Colloquially, being fierce and unreasonable is called 潑. As in 潑婦 (shrew), 撒潑 (making a scene).
Onyomi

hatsu(はつ)
Kunyomi

mo.ru(もる)

soso.gu(そそぐ)

tobichiru
Strokes

16 strokes
Radical

水氵氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)
Related Keywords
splash pour spray scatter water vigorous full energy