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呉

呉 — o, hwa

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

This is the Japanese glyph form. The Korean form is 吳.

Korean reading
성(姓) 오, 큰소리칠 화
Romanization
o, hwa
English
one of warring states; surname
Mandarin
wú
Japanese on'yomi
ゴ
Japanese kun'yomi
く.れる くれ
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,729 of 2,500
Strokes
7
Variant forms
吴 吳
Radical
口 (30, 4 residual)
Unicode
U+5449

Japanese words with 呉

  • 呉服ごふく cloth (for Japanese clothes); kimono fabrics; textile
  • 呉越同舟ごえつどうしゅう bitter enemies in the same boat; rivals finding themselves together by chance; strange bedfellows
  • 呉ご Wu (region in China, south of the lower Yangtze); Wu (kingdom in China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era; 902-937 CE); Southern Wu
  • 呉越ごえつ Wu and Yue (two rival states in ancient China)
  • 呉音ごおん go-on; Wu reading; on reading of a kanji based on 5th and 6th century Chinese
  • 呉須ごす gosu porcelain; asbolite; zaffer
  • 呉竹くれたけ Henon bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis)
  • 呉るくる to give; to let one have; to do for one
  • 呉語ごご Wu Chinese (language); Shanghainese
  • 呉牛ごぎゅう water buffalo
  • 呉汁ごじる gojiru; miso soup with ground soybeans
  • 呉れるくれる to give; to let (one) have; to give

Other hanja read “오”

Other hanja with radical 口

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