Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N2

1589 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: mud, mire, adhere to, be attached to

Kunyomi: どろ なず.む

Onyomi: デイ ナイ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: さんずい

Meaning: water

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

土(でいど)   mud

水(でいすい)   muddy water

の差(うんでいのさ)   wide difference

酔する(でいすいする)   be dead drunk

(どろ)   mud

んこ(どろんこ)   morass of mud

沼(どろぬま)   bog, morass

棒(どろぼう)   thief, burglar, robber, theft

こそ(こそどろ)   sneak-thief, pilferer

Onyomi Examples

ドロヌマ bog, marsh, swamp, quagmire, morass, quandary, dire situation from which one cannot extricate oneself, imbroglio

ドロミズ muddy water, red-light district

オデイ sludge, slime, dregs, mire, hopeless situation, hell, despair

コウデイ fango, mud, herb and wax mix used for therapy

ナイオン nirvana

ドロヌマ bog, marsh, swamp, quagmire, morass, quandary, dire situation from which one cannot extricate oneself, imbroglio

ドロミズ muddy water, red-light district

Kunyomi Examples

どろ mud, slush, (wet) dirt, mire, thief

どろぬま bog, marsh, swamp, quagmire, morass, quandary, dire situation from which one cannot extricate oneself, imbroglio

どろどろ thick, viscous, mushy, pulpy, slushy, syrupy, sticky, muddy, dirty (with oil, grease, etc.), to be in an ugly state (of emotions, relations, etc.), to be murky, to be sordid

けいどろ cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)

なずむ to cling to, to stick to, to be wedded to