Onyomi: ヨウ · Kunyomi: と.かす, と.く, と.ける · Meanings: dissolve, melt, thaw
Kanji for dissolve, melt, thaw
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溶 is made of the water radical 氵 on the left and 谷 (valley) on the right. 氵 represents water or liquid. 谷 represents a valley, a place where things flow into and gather. When a solid is put into water, it breaks down and flows together, like water and materials collecting and blending inside a valley. From this idea, 溶 came to mean to melt or dissolve.
溶 shows water flowing into a valley and causing things to melt and blend together.
Picture water (氵) pouring into a valley (谷), making sugar or salt melt away into the water. That melting and dissolving action is 溶.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 溶岩 | ようがん | lava | common JLPT-N2 Noun |
| 溶液 | ようえき | solution (liquid) | common JLPT-N1 Noun |
| 溶ける | とける | to melt, to thaw, to fuse | common JLPT-N2 Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb |
| 溶け込む | とけこむ | to melt into, to dissolve into, to merge into | common JLPT-N2 Godan verb with 'mu' ending, Intransitive verb |
| 溶かす | とかす | to dissolve | common JLPT-N2 Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verb |
| 溶解 | ようかい | dissolution, dissolving, solution (e.g. chemical) | Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb, Intransitive verb |
| 溶剤 | ようざい | solvent, solution, flux | Noun |
| 溶け合う | とけあう | to melt together | Godan verb with 'u' ending, Intransitive verb |
| 溶く | とく | to dissolve (paint), to scramble (eggs), to melt (metal, etc.), to mix (water with flour, etc.) | common JLPT-N2 Godan verb with 'ku' ending, Transitive verb |
| 溶接 | ようせつ | welding | common Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb |
| 溶媒 | ようばい | solvent | Noun |
| 蕩ける | とろける | to melt (and become soft or liquid) | JLPT-N1 Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb |
| 溶融 | ようゆう | melting, fusion | Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |
| 溶鉱炉 | ようこうろ | smelting furnace, blast furnace | Noun |
| 溶血 | ようけつ | hemolysis | Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |