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The kanji 井: meaning, readings and stroke order
井
- Meaning
- water well
- On reading
- セイ sei、ショウ* shou
- Kun reading
- い i
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 二 two
- Level
- Level 4 · grade 4
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- giếng (tỉnh)
- Japanese
- いど。
- Korean
- 우물 (정)
- Chinese
- 井
Readings, words and example sentences
セイ sei · on reading · less common
油井
oil well
海の 中に 油井が あります。
There is an oil well in the sea.
い i · kun reading
井戸
well (for water)
むかしは 井戸の 水を 使いました。
Long ago, people used water from wells.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
Practise writing 井 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 井 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 4 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.