Hanja Analyzer
惧

惧 — gu

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
두려워할 구
Romanization
gu
English
fear, be afraid of, dread
Mandarin
jù
Japanese on'yomi
ク, グ
Japanese kun'yomi
おそ.れる
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#2,097 of 2,500
Strokes
11
Radical
心 (61, 8 residual)
Phonetic component
具(구)
Unicode
U+60E7

Parts that make up 惧

  • 忄 마음 심variant of 心 심장을 본뜬 것느낌과 생각, 마음의 움직임
  • 具 갖출 구sound 두 손으로 솥을 받쳐 든 모양갖추다. ‘구’ 계열의 소리

How 惧 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 惧 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 心, 具.

Japanese words with 惧

  • 危惧きぐ apprehension; misgivings; uneasiness
  • 絶滅危惧ぜつめつきぐ threatened (species); endangered
  • 絶滅危惧種ぜつめつきぐしゅ endangered species
  • 準絶滅危惧じゅんぜつめつきぐ near-threatened (species)

Characters sharing the phonetic 具

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 “구” in Korean.

Other hanja read “구”

Other hanja with radical 心

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