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Kanji Detail for 湧 - "to gush out, to surge up"

湧

  • Meaning

    湧 means "to gush out, to surge up." Also associated with to spring forth.

    1. To well up - To spring forth; to gush out; water emerging from the ground.

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    • Verified meaning: to gush out, to surge up
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read いさむ, ゆう, わく)
    • Also carries these associations: to spring forth

    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 湧

    Given names 湧(いさむ)Listen 湧(ゆう)Listen 湧(わく)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    boil; ferment; seethe; uproar; breed

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    well up; gush forth; rise

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to bubble up; to rush forth

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to gush, to well up, to bubble up

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

    Water gushing upward. | [Character analysis] Originally written as 涌. Now mostly written as 湧.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    yoh(ヨウ) ヨウ

    yu(ユ) ユ

    yuu(ユウ) ユウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    wa.ku(わく) わく

  • Strokes

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    12 strokes

  • Radical

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    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    to gush out to spring forth to surge up well up boil bubble flow fountain emerge erupt stream burst rise pour

Sentences including 湧

  • Her eyes gushed with tears.

Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces

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