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泉
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

spring

HSK 5 N2
Nature →Elements →Water
quán
セン
いずみ
천
Depicts water (水) coming out of a crack in a rock.
Components
◎ characterless component+ 水 water =
泉 spring
◎ Iconic component
characterless component
Depicts a crack in a rock. Unrelated to 白 (white).
水 Iconic component
shuǐ water
water, liquid, lotion, juice
Notes
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Historical Evolution
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle
(~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle
(~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle
(~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze Warring States (475-221 BC)
Bronze
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Bronze Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Bronze
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
泉
Regular
Modern
Chinese
泉 [quán]
spring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)
Japanese
泉 いずみ 同音
noun spring; fountain
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
泉はおよそ１７０フィートの高さまで温水を吹き出す。
The fountain sends hot water to a height of 170 feet.
Japanese Names
泉 いすみ
Isumi surname
泉 いずみ
Izumi place namesurnamefemale given name
泉 いずみさき
Izumisaki surname
泉 いづみ
Izumi place namesurnamefemale given name
泉 せん
Sen female given namesurname
泉 せんじ
Senji unclassified name
泉 みなもと
Minamoto surname
泉 もと
Moto unclassified name
泉 やないずみ
Yanaizumi surname
泉 やなぎいずみ
Yanagiizumi surname
CHINESE WORDS (120)
温泉 [Wēn​quán] #7,539
Arishang Nahiyisi or Wenquan county in Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州|博尔塔拉蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
温泉 [Wēn​quán] #7,539
Arishang Nahiyisi or Wenquan county in Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州|博尔塔拉蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
喷泉 [pēn​quán] #7,801
fountain
喷泉 [pēn​quán] #7,801
fountain
矿泉水 [kuàng​quán​shuǐ] #14,177
mineral spring water
矿泉水 [kuàng​quán​shuǐ] #14,177
mineral spring water
小泉 [Xiǎo​quán] #23,648
Koizumi (name)
源泉 [yuán​quán] #13,422
fountainhead
泉州 [Quán​zhōu] #8,058
Quanzhou prefecture level city in Fujian
泉水 [quán​shuǐ] #14,760
spring water
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JAPANESE WORDS (113)
⭐ 温泉 [おんせん] #4,309
hot spring
⭐ 源泉 [げんせん] #21,605
source (of a spring, etc.)
和泉 [いずみ] #24,145
Izumi (former province located in the southwest of present-day Osaka Prefecture)
黄泉 [よみ] #25,728
Hades
温泉宿 [おんせんやど] #40,059
hot spring inn
温泉街 [おんせんがい] #40,157
hot spring district (within a town)
温泉地 [おんせんち] #41,245
hot spring area
温泉旅館 [おんせんりょかん] #43,034
inn with hot spring facilities
間欠泉 [かんけつせん] #51,557
geyser
⭐ 泉水 [せんすい] #53,825
garden pond
103 more items
KOREAN WORDS (3)
원천 #42,694
headspring; fountainhead; wellspring
구천
the other world
온천
hot spring