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Thirsty Water Siesta 渇 カツ かわ.く Thirst Dry

Kanji
Onyomi カツ
Kunyomi かわ.く
English thirst, dry up, parch
Examples 渇く(かわく): to be thirsty
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 1944
Components 水: water
曷: why; how; when
Number of Strokes 11
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 85
Radical Strokes 4
Radical Reading みず・したみず・さんずい
Traditional Form
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword thirst
Koohii Story 1 You awaken from your siesta because you feel extremely thirsty so you go looking for some water.
Koohii Story 2 The muchacho taking his SIESTA cries out that he is THIRSTY. So you pull out a bottle of WATER and pretend you´re going to give it to him...but then you dump it all on the ground before his eyes. HAHA, sucked in muchacho!!
RTK Index (new) 488

Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq1501-2000

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