Hanja Analyzer
佝

佝 — gu

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
꼽추 구
Romanization
gu
English
rickets
Mandarin
gōu
Japanese on'yomi
ク, コウ
Japanese kun'yomi
せむし
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
7
Radical
人 (9, 5 residual)
Phonetic component
句(구)
Unicode
U+4F5D

Parts that make up 佝

  • 亻 사람 인variant of 人 옆에서 본 사람사람과 사람이 하는 일, 사람의 됨됨이
  • 句 글귀 구, 글귀 귀sound 굽어 감싼 말‘구’ 계열의 소리

How 佝 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 佝 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 人, 句.

Japanese words with 佝

  • 佝僂くる rickets; person with rickets; hunchback

Characters sharing the phonetic 句

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “구” in Korean.

Other hanja read “구”

Other hanja with radical 人

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