Kanji
N2 9 strokes Grade 4 freq #1253

shallow, superficial, frivolous, wretched, shameful

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

water mizu

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

shallow view; superficial idea
shoal; shallows
shoal; wide shallow beach
half-dried daikon, salted and picked in kōji
superficial transverse perineal muscle
superficial temporal artery
blue-green lining; kimono with blue-green lining
bathymetry; sounding
light light blue; pale blue
sparsely growing cogon grass; short cogon grass

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

shallow; superficial
dark (skin, complexion, etc.); swarthy
shallow; superficial
shallowish; somewhat shallow
early-spring; not yet springlike
it hasn't been long since
it hasn't been long since
inexperienced

Example sentences

A child on your back may guide you across a ford.

He leaped over the shallow ditch.

The river is shallow here. We can walk across.

The blue of her eyes stands out against her rather dark skin.