Kanji
N1 12 strokes Grade 8 freq #1658

dike, bank, embankment

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

earth tsuchi

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

bank; weir
breakwater; mole
jetty; breakwater
haiku by Yosa Buson (Spring Wind on the Riverbank of Kema)
dam; weir
open levee
earthfill dam
bank; embankment
breakwater; wave-absorbing dyke (dike)
neural crest

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

bank; embankment
a small leak will sink a great ship
a small leak will sink a great ship
to construct an embankment
to build an embankment

Example sentences

The bank secured the city from a flood.

The levee kept the floodwater back.