全
全 — jeon
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 온전 전
- Romanization
- jeon
- English
- maintain, keep whole or intact
- Mandarin
- quán
- Japanese on'yomi
- ゼン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- まった.く すべ.て
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 3
- Newspaper frequency
- #75 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 入 (11, 4 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5168
Parts that make up 全
How 全 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 全 as a ideographic compound involving 入, 玉.
Korean example words with 全
- 전구全口 Korean gloss: 온 식구
- 전국全國 Korean gloss: 온 나라
- 전도全道 Korean gloss: 모든 도
- 전력全力 Korean gloss: 모든 힘
- 전생全生 Korean gloss: 온 생애
- 전신全身 Korean gloss: 몸 전체
- 전심全心 Korean gloss: 온 마음
- 전촌全村 Korean gloss: 온 마을
- 전가全家 Korean gloss: 가족 전체
- 전곡全曲 Korean gloss: 곡의 전체
- 전단全段 Korean gloss: 모든 단락
- 전일全日 Korean gloss: 하루 종일
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 全
- 安全あんぜん safety; security
- 全体ぜんたい whole; entirety; to begin with
- 全国ぜんこく the whole country
- 全員ぜんいん all members; all hands; everyone
- 全日ぜんじつ all days
- 全面ぜんめん whole surface; entire
- 安全保障あんぜんほしょう (guarantee of) security
- 全部ぜんぶ all; entire; whole
- 全力ぜんりょく all one's power (strength, energy, efforts); one's utmost
- 保全ほぜん preservation; conservation; maintenance
- 心不全しんふぜん heart failure
- 完全かんぜん perfect; complete
Characters sharing the phonetic 全
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 “전” in Korean.
Other hanja read “전”
Other hanja with radical 入
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