堝
堝 — gwa
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 도가니 과
- Romanization
- gwa
- English
- crucible
- Mandarin
- guō
- Japanese on'yomi
- カ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- るつぼ
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 土 (32, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+581D
Parts that make up 堝
How 堝 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 堝 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 土, 咼.
Japanese words with 堝
- 坩堝るつぼ crucible; melting pot; melting pot (of cultures, ideas, etc.)
- 坩堝と化するつぼとかす to turn into a state of feverish mood
Other hanja read “과”
Other hanja with radical 土
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