Meanings
Readings
Common Words
bath; bathing; bathtub; bathroom
bathhouse; public bath
room for drying lacquerware
base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)
to take a bath; to have a bath
Colloquial
to take a shower
open-air bath; rotenburo; rotemburo
furoshiki; wrapping cloth; cloth wrapper
traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary
fundamentals; the ABCs of ...
Memory Mnemonics
Keywords
The core concepts or meanings associated with this specific kanji.
Constituents
The visual building blocks used to craft this character's story.
Mnemonic Stories
This character looks a lot like a pictogram of a section of the spine.
You could think of the spine as a thing that connects one mouth (on your face) to another mouth (your anus).
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