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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 6

JLPT level: N1

1231 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 15

Meaning: tide, salt water, opportunity

Kunyomi: しお, うしお

Onyomi: チョウ

Composition: 氵 朝

潮

Radical

Radical: 水

Reading: さんずい

Meaning: water

Strokes: 3

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Examples

Examples with audio

潮流(ちょうりゅう)   tide, tidal current, trend

干潮(かんちょう)   ebb tide

満潮(まんちょう)   high tide

潮(しお)   tide

潮時(しおどき)   timing of tides, opportunity

潮干狩り(しおひがり)   shell gathering

血潮(ちしお)   blood

黒潮(くろしお)   the Japan Current

引き潮(ひきしお)   ebb tide

満ち潮(みちしお)   high tide

Onyomi Examples

潮流 (チョウリュウ) tide, tidal current, tendency, drift, trend

潮位 (チョウイ) tide level

思潮 (シチョウ) trend of thought

退潮 (タイチョウ) ebb tide, waning fortunes

Kunyomi Examples

潮 (しお) tide, current, sea water, opportunity, chance, thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

潮風 (しおかぜ) salty sea breeze, salt wind

黒潮 (くろしお) Kuroshio Current, Japan Current

赤潮 (あかしお) red tide

潮 (しお) tide, current, sea water, opportunity, chance, thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

潮汁 (うしおじる) thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

夕潮 (ゆうしお) evening tide

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