泉
泉 — cheon
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 샘 천
- Romanization
- cheon
- English
- spring, fountain; wealth, money
- Mandarin
- quán
- Japanese on'yomi
- セン, ゼン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- いずみ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 6
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,086 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 水 (85, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+6CC9
How 泉 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 泉 as a ideographic compound involving 白, 水.
Korean example words with 泉
- 원천源泉 Korean gloss: 사물의 근원
- 열천冽泉 Korean gloss: 차고 맑은 샘
- 천수泉水 Korean gloss: 샘에서 나오는 물
- 곡천谷泉 Korean gloss: 산골짜기에서 나는 샘물
- 용천湧泉 Korean gloss: 지하수가 자연 상태에서 지표로 분출하는 일
- 황천黃泉 Korean gloss: 사람이 죽은 뒤에 그 혼이 가서 산다고 하는 세상
- 임천林泉 Korean gloss: 세상을 버리고 은둔하기 알맞은 곳을 비유적으로 이르는 말
- 구천九泉 Korean gloss: 땅속 깊은 밑바닥이란 뜻으로, 죽은 뒤에 넋이 돌아가는 곳을 이르는 말
- 냉천수冷泉水 Korean gloss: 온도가 낮은 물
- 원천성源泉性 Korean gloss: 사물의 근원적 성질
- 온천수溫泉水 Korean gloss: 땅속에서 솟아나는 더운물
- 온천공溫泉孔 Korean gloss: 온천물이 솟아 나오는 구멍
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 泉
- 泉いずみ spring; fountain
- 温泉おんせん hot spring; onsen; hot spring resort
- 源泉げんせん source (of a spring, etc.); source (of payment, energy, knowledge, etc.); origin
- 泉水せんすい garden pond; miniature lake; fountain
- 温泉郷おんせんきょう hot-spring village; onsen village
- 霊泉れいせん miraculous spring or fountain
- 天然温泉てんねんおんせん natural hot spring
- 井泉せいせん (water) well; well water
- 黄泉よみ Hades; hell; underworld
- 九泉きゅうせん hades; nether regions
- 鉱泉こうせん mineral spring
- 冷泉れいせん cold mineral spring
Other hanja read “천”
Other hanja with radical 水
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences