洒
洒 — swae, se
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 뿌릴 쇄, 씻을 세
- Romanization
- swae, se
- English
- sprinkle; scatter; pour; to wipe away; to shiver
- Mandarin
- sǎ
- Japanese on'yomi
- サイ, シャ, セイ, シ, セン, ソン, セ, サ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- すす.ぐ あら.う
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Newspaper frequency
- #2,440 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 水 (85, 6 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 西
- Unicode
- U+6D12
Parts that make up 洒
- 氵 물 수variant of 水 흐르는 물줄기물·액체와 관련된 것, 씻고 적시고 흐르는 일
- 西 Japanese form of 襾 위아래로 덮은 뚜껑덮고 가리는 일. 覀 로 쓴다
How 洒 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 洒 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 水, 西.
Japanese words with 洒
- 洒落しゃれ joke; pun; jest
- 瀟洒しょうしゃ stylish; smart; elegant
- お洒落おしゃれ stylish; fashionable; trendy
- 洒落るしゃれる to dress stylishly; to joke; to play on words
- 洒脱しゃだつ sophisticated; refined; witty
- 洒洒しゃしゃ quick; simple; neat
- 洒掃さいそう scrubbing (with water); cleaning
- 悪洒落わるじゃれ offensive joke
- 駄洒落だじゃれ feeble joke; poor joke; corny joke
- 洒落たしゃれた stylish; smart; tasteful
- 洒落者しゃれもの dandy; fop
- 洒落本しゃれぼん sharebon; late Edo-period novelette about life in the red-light districts
Characters sharing the phonetic 西
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “쇄”
Other hanja with radical 水
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