Hanja Analyzer
冑

冑 — ju

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
투구 주
Romanization
ju
English
helmet
Mandarin
zhòu
Japanese on'yomi
チュウ, ジュウ
Japanese kun'yomi
かぶと よろい
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
9
Radical
冂 (13, 7 residual)
Unicode
U+5191

Parts that make up 冑

  • 由 말미암을 유 돋아나는 싹 또는 유자 열매말미암다. 소리로도 자주 쓴다
  • 月 고기 육, 둘레 유variant of 肉 저며 놓은 고깃덩이몸의 살과 장기. 왼쪽·아래에서 月 로 쓴다

How 冑 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 冑 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 帽, 由.

Japanese words with 冑

  • 甲冑かっちゅう armor and helmet
  • 華冑かちゅう aristocracy; nobility
  • 甲冑師かっちゅうし armorer; armourer
  • 甲冑魚かっちゅうぎょ armored fish; armoured fish

Other hanja read “주”

Other hanja with radical 冂

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