Hanja Analyzer
劔

劔 — geom

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
칼 검
Romanization
geom
English
sword, dagger, saber
Mandarin
jiàn
Japanese on'yomi
ケン
Japanese kun'yomi
つるぎ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
16
Variant forms
剣 劍 劒
Radical
刀 (18, 14 residual)
Unicode
U+5294

Parts that make up 劔

  • 僉 다/여러 첨 여럿의 입이 한데 모인 모양‘검·험·렴’ 계열의 소리
  • 刄 칼날 인 칼날에 점을 찍은 모양칼날. ‘인’ 계열의 소리

How 劔 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 劔 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 僉, 刄.

Other hanja read “검”

Other hanja with radical 刀

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