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Meanings Spotted an issue? steam locomotive steam train (long-distance) train non-electric train diesel train Radicals and components How it's built 汽
氵 water left · 3 strokes · form of 水 → 气 steamphoneticキ right · 4 strokes →
Mnemonic (RtK) ⓘ water (水) · water droplets (氵) · water pistol (氵) · landed fish · reclining · lying down · one (一) · floor · fishhook
From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 2031
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This train is the last train to the world's end.tatoeba Additional Examples
He got off the train.tatoeba He got on the train.tatoeba When he got to the station, the train had already left.tatoeba Our train stopped for five hours owing to the earthquake.tatoeba Operated by Kanbara Kisen Companywiki Hokkaido Colliery & Steamship Co., Ltd. (Mitsui Kanko Kaihatsu K.K.)wiki Real voices: how native speakers say it These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.
汽 車をはじめて見たのは、よほど大きくなってからでした1 2 きしゃをはじめてみたのは、よほどおおきくなってからでした I didn't see a train for the first time until I was quite grown up. Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice , CC0
Stroke Order 7 strokes
Steam. 氵 (water) + 气 (vapour) — water turned to steam. 汽車 — steam train.
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