池
いけ
hepburn ike
pond
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 公園の池に魚がいます。There are fish in the park pond.
- 池でカモが泳いでいます。Ducks are swimming in the pond.
Collocations
池 (ike, pond)溜池 (tameike, reservoir)池田 (Ikeda, common surname/place)湖 (mizuumi, lake)沼 (numa, marsh)
Mnemonic
池 ike — Japanese splits water bodies by size and ecology: 池 (ike, pond, natural or artificial) < 湖 (mizuumi, lake) < 沼 (numa, marsh) < 海 (umi, sea). The pond is a centerpiece of Japanese 日本庭園 (gardens) — 池泉回遊式庭園 (chisen-kaiyū-shiki teien, stroll garden around a pond) is the style of Kanazawa's Kenrokuen and Kyoto's Ryōan-ji. The vocabulary connects to garden culture and the tea ceremony. Onyomi ち (chi): 電池 (denchi, "electric pond" = battery), 貯水池 (chosuichi, reservoir) — abstract sense of "containment".
Quick check
Metaphor of 池 in 電池?