泉

Translingual

Han character

泉 (radical 85 水+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹日水 (HAE), four-corner 2623₂, composition ⿱白水)

1. spring, wellspring, fountain
2. wealth, money

Derived characters

• 腺

References

• KangXi: page 615, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17274
• Dae Jaweon: page 1009, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1576, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6CC9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

泉 (jyutping cyun4, Yale chyun4)

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Japanese

Etymology

/idumi/ > /izumi/. Compound of verb izu (“to come out”) and mi (“water”).

Noun

泉 (hiragana いずみ, romaji izumi, historical hiragana いづみ)

1. natural spring; a wellspring

Proper noun

泉 (hiragana いずみ, romaji Izumi)

1. A male given name

Kanji

泉 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: いずみ (izumi)

Compounds

温泉 (おんせん, onsen, “hot spring”)

源泉

鉱泉

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Korean

Hanja

泉 (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

泉 (pinyin quán (quan2), Wade-Giles ch'üan²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

泉 (tuyền)