Hanja Analyzer
搶

搶 — chang

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
빼앗을 창
Romanization
chang
English
plunder, rob, take by force
Mandarin
qiǎng
Japanese on'yomi
ソウ, ショウ
Japanese kun'yomi
つ.く
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
13
Radical
手 (64, 10 residual)
Phonetic component
倉(창)
Unicode
U+6436

Parts that make up 搶

  • 扌 손 수variant of 手 다섯 손가락을 편 손손으로 하는 동작
  • 倉 곳집 창sound 곡식을 넣어 두는 곳집곳집. ‘창·창’ 계열의 소리

How 搶 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 搶 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 手, 倉.

Japanese words with 搶

  • 搶槓チャンカン winning on a tile robbed from another player's kong

Characters sharing the phonetic 倉

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 “창” in Korean.

Other hanja read “창”

Other hanja with radical 手

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