Hanja Analyzer
屋

屋 — ok

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
집 옥
Romanization
ok
English
house; room; building, shelter
Mandarin
wū
Japanese on'yomi
オク
Japanese kun'yomi
や
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 3
Newspaper frequency
#616 of 2,500
Strokes
9
Radical
尸 (44, 6 residual)
Unicode
U+5C4B

Parts that make up 屋

  • 尸 주검 시 구부린 몸몸과 몸으로 하는 일, 집
  • 至 이를 지 땅에 내리꽂힌 화살다다르는 일

How 屋 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 屋 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 𡉉, 室.

Korean example words with 屋

  • 거옥巨屋 Korean gloss: 매우 큰 집
  • 가옥家屋 Korean gloss: 사람이 사는 집
  • 소옥小屋 Korean gloss: 규모가 작은 집
  • 누옥陋屋 Korean gloss: 좁고 너저분한 집
  • 고옥古屋 Korean gloss: 지은 지 오래된 집
  • 구옥舊屋 Korean gloss: 지은 지 오래된 집
  • 양옥洋屋 Korean gloss: 서양식으로 지은 집
  • 옥내屋內 Korean gloss: 집 또는 건물의 안
  • 옥외屋外 Korean gloss: 집 또는 건물의 밖
  • 패옥敗屋 Korean gloss: 낡아서 허물어진 집
  • 두옥斗屋 Korean gloss: 아주 작고 초라한 집
  • 와옥瓦屋 Korean gloss: 지붕을 기와로 인 집

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

Japanese words with 屋

  • 部屋へや room; chamber; apartment
  • 屋根やね roof
  • 総会屋そうかいや extortionist that threatens to disrupt stock-holder meetings; sokaiya
  • 小屋こや hut; cabin; shed
  • 屋上おくじょう rooftop
  • 料理屋りょうりや restaurant
  • 家屋かおく house; building
  • 屋外おくがい outdoors; outside
  • 問屋とんや wholesale store; wholesale dealer; wholesaler
  • 屋台やたい cart (esp. a food cart); stall; stand
  • 屋内おくない indoors
  • 居酒屋いざかや izakaya; tavern, bar, etc. that also serves various dishes and snacks

Characters sharing the phonetic 屋

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 “악” in Korean.

Other hanja read “옥”

Other hanja with radical 尸

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