The kanji 浴: meaning, readings and stroke order
浴
- Meaning
- bathe, shower
- On reading
- ヨク yoku
- Kun reading
- あ(びる) abiru、あ(びせる) abiseru
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 水 water
- Level
- Level 4 · grade 4
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- tắm, dội (dục)
- Japanese
- みずや ゆを からだに かける。あびる。
- Korean
- 목욕하다, 흠뻑 맞다 (욕)
- Chinese
- 洗澡、淋
Readings, words and example sentences
ヨク yoku · on reading
入浴
taking a bath
夜に ゆっくり 入浴します。
At night I take a long, relaxing bath.
あ(びる) abiru · kun reading
浴びる
to take (a shower), to be covered in
運動の あとに シャワーを 浴びます。
I take a shower after exercising.
あ(びせる) abiseru · kun reading · less common
浴びせる
to pour over (someone)
弟に 水を 浴びせました。
I poured water over my little brother.
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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.