Corpus composition research
Kanji Pair Research
Enter one kanji to discover other characters recorded in the same JMnedict name spellings, or enter two kanji to inspect that exact co-occurrence. Every count in this research view describes the imported corpus—not population popularity in Japan.
川
Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 · 3 strokes
水stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 · 4 strokes
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Recorded names
Name readings containing both characters
The pair only has to occur in the same written form; the two kanji are not required to be adjacent unless counted in the adjacency statistics above.
Surname
水川
2 source-recorded spellings in this reading group contain both 川 and 水SurnameMinagawa
みながわ
水鳥川
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 川 and 水SurnameMidorikawa
みどりかわ
水川
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 川 and 水SurnameMinakawa
みなかわ
水谷川
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 川 and 水SurnameMiyagawa
みやがわ
水主川
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 川 and 水SurnameNasukawa
なすかわ
出水川
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 川 and 水SurnameIzumigawa
いずみがわ
水戸川
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 川 and 水Mitokawa
みとかわ
Evidence boundary
Co-occurrence is not popularity or etymology
The pair relation comes from exact JMnedict source rows through the compact kanji-usage index. KANJIDIC2 contributes character metadata only. A high corpus count can reflect dictionary coverage and should not be read as a national usage frequency.