noun
A small body of still water, natural or artificial, typically found in gardens, parks, or the countryside.
庭に小さな池があります。
There is a small pond in the garden.
池の周りを散歩した。
I took a walk around the pond.
Standard kanji spelling; high priority.
The kanji 池 is a phono-semantic compound: the water radical 氵 and the phonetic 也 (now simplified). The word いけ is a native Japanese term of uncertain origin.