Hanja Analyzer
字

字 — ja

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
글자 자
Romanization
ja
English
letter, character, word
Mandarin
zì
Japanese on'yomi
ジ, シ
Japanese kun'yomi
あざ あざな -な
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 1
Newspaper frequency
#485 of 2,500
Strokes
6
Radical
子 (39, 3 residual)
Phonetic component
子(자)
Unicode
U+5B57

Parts that make up 字

  • 宀 지붕집과 집 안에서 일어나는 일
  • 子 아들 자sound 포대기에 싸인 아기아이와 자식, 작고 어린 것

How 字 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 字 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 宀, 子.

Korean example words with 字

  • 탈자脫字 Korean gloss: 빠진 글자
  • 자수字數 Korean gloss: 글자의 수효
  • 자양字樣 Korean gloss: 글자의 모양
  • 일자一字 Korean gloss: 한 마디의 글
  • 신자新字 Korean gloss: 새로 만든 글자
  • 숫자數字 Korean gloss: 사물이나 사람의 수
  • 명자名字 Korean gloss: 세상에서 소문난 평판
  • 궐자闕字 Korean gloss: 문장 가운데 빠진 글자
  • 자석字釋 Korean gloss: 글자의 뜻을 풀이한 것
  • 해자垓字 Korean gloss: 성 주위에 둘러 판 못
  • 해자楷字 Korean gloss: 해서(楷書)로 쓴 글자
  • 성자姓字 Korean gloss: 성(姓)을 나타내는 글자

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 字

  • 黒字くろじ (being in) the black; surplus; black letter
  • 数字すうじ numeral; digit; numeric character
  • 赤字あかじ (being in) the red; deficit; red letter
  • 文字もじ letter (of an alphabet); character; writing
  • 字あざ section of village
  • 漢字かんじ kanji; Chinese character
  • 十字じゅうじ cross; cross shape; sign of the cross
  • 文字通りもじどおり literally; to the letter; literal
  • 活字かつじ (piece of) type; movable type; moveable type
  • 点字てんじ braille
  • 英字えいじ English letter; alphabetic character
  • 字詰めじづめ number of characters per line, page, etc.

Characters sharing the phonetic 子

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 “자” in Korean.

Other hanja read “자”

Other hanja with radical 子

Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences