水
スイ
みず • みず-
water
Words
水干
すいかん
- everyday garment worn by nobles in ancient Japan n
- silk dried after having been washed in plain water and stretched out n
お水
おみず
- (a cup of) water n
- racy; titillating; sexy; suggestive adj-na
渇しても盗泉の水を飲まず
かっしてもとうせんのみずをのまず
- better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth; don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are; refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty exp proverb
お水取り
おみずとり
- water-drawing ceremony (performed at Tōdaiji on March 13); rite of drawing sacred water n
水文学
すいもんがく
- hydrology n