Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N3

776 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: floating, float, rise to surface

Kunyomi: う.く う.かれる う.かぶ う.かべる

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: さんずい

Meaning: water

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

力(ふりょく)   buoyancy, floating power

浪者(ふろうしゃ)   vagrant, homeless

遊する(ふゆうする)   float, wander

上する(ふじょうする)   surface, rise to the surface

かべる(うかべる)   float, express, look [v.t.]

かぶ(うかぶ)   float, rise to surface [v.i.]

く(うく)   float [v.i.]

き世(うきよ)   fleeting life, this transient world

世絵(うきよえ)   ukiyoe

かれる(うかれる)   make merry, be festive

*気(うわき)   illicit love affair

*つく(うわつく)   be flippant, frivolous [v.i.]

Onyomi Examples

フチン floating and sinking, rise and fall, ebb and flow, ups and downs

フジョウ surfacing, rising to the surface, emerging, leaping into prominence, rising (of rank)

ケイフ fickle, frivolous

Kunyomi Examples

うく to float, to become merry, to be cheerful, to become loose, to become unsteady, to feel out of it, to be cut off (e.g. from those around you), to feel out of place, to be frivolous, to be uncertain, to have (time, money, etc.) left over, to be saved (e.g. money), to have no basis, to be unreliable

かれる うかれる to make merry, to be festive

かぶ うかぶ to float, to be suspended, to rise to the surface, to appear, to emerge, to show up, to loom (up), to come to mind, to have inspiration

かぶ瀬 うかぶせ chance, opportunity, lucky break

かべる うかべる to float, to set afloat, to launch, to show on one's face (smile, sadness, etc.), to recall, to call to mind, to imagine, to think of