江 — kanji meaning “creek”
江
creek, inlet, bay
- Meanings
- creek, inlet, bay
- On'yomi
- コウ (kou)
- Kun'yomi
- え
- Name readings
- くん、とうみ、み、りえ
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #704 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 85
- Chinese reading
- jiāng — Chinese character page
Words with 江
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 江戸 | えど edo | Edo (shogunate capital; former name of Tokyo); Yedo |
| 堀江 | ほりえ horie | canal |
| 江上 | こうじょう koujou | (on the) bank of a large river |
| 江戸前 | えどまえ edomae | Tokyo style |
| 長江 | ちょうこう choukou | Yangtze River (China); Changjiang River |
| 近江 | おうみ oumi | Ōmi (former province located in present-day Shiga Prefecture) |
| 松江 | まつえ matsue | Matsue (city in Shimane) |
| 江頭 | こうとう koutou | riverbank (esp. the Yangtze River) |
| 入り江 | いりえ irie | inlet; cove; creek |
| 江戸城 | えどじょう edojou | Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace) |
| 揚子江 | ようすこう yousukou | Yangtze River (China) |
| 遠江 | とおとうみ tootoumi | Tōtōmi (former province located in the west of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture) |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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