潮 means “tide, current, trend”

しお · shio

Also: salt water, opportunity

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

しお, うしお

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

チョウ

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The story

Water (氵) and morning (朝): the tide that comes in with the dawn, once told apart from 汐, the evening tide. In spring families go 潮干狩り, digging clams at low tide, and 風潮 is the tide of opinion.

Used in 満潮 (manchou, high tide), 潮干狩り (shiohigari, clam digging), and 風潮 (fuuchou, trend)

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