Hanja Analyzer
政

政 — jeong

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
정사(政事) 정
Romanization
jeong
English
government, political affairs
Mandarin
zhèng
Japanese on'yomi
セイ, ショウ
Japanese kun'yomi
まつりごと まん
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 5
Newspaper frequency
#17 of 2,500
Strokes
9
Radical
攴 (66, 4 residual)
Unicode
U+653F

Parts that make up 政

  • 正 바를 정 성을 향해 곧게 가는 발바르고 곧은 것. ‘정’ 계열의 소리
  • 攵 variant of 攴 손에 든 막대기치고 때려 시키는 일. 오른쪽에서 攵 으로 쓴다

How 政 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 政 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 正, 攴.

Korean example words with 政

  • 인정仁政 Korean gloss: 어진 정치
  • 가정苛政 Korean gloss: 가혹한 정치
  • 국정國政 Korean gloss: 나라의 정치
  • 신정新政 Korean gloss: 새로운 정치
  • 위정爲政 Korean gloss: 정치를 행함
  • 폭정暴政 Korean gloss: 포악한 정치
  • 난정亂政 Korean gloss: 어지러운 정치
  • 정략政略 Korean gloss: 정치상의 책략
  • 정형政形 Korean gloss: 정치계의 형편
  • 은정恩政 Korean gloss: 은혜롭게 다스림
  • 세정稅政 Korean gloss: 세무에 관한 행정
  • 폐정弊政 Korean gloss: 폐단이 많은 정치

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

Japanese words with 政

  • 行政ぎょうせい executive; government; administration
  • 財政ざいせい public finance; financial affairs; financial situation
  • 政界せいかい (world of) politics; political world; political circles
  • 政権せいけん (political) administration; political power
  • 政策せいさく political measures; policy
  • 政治せいじ politics; government
  • 政党せいとう political party
  • 政府せいふ government; administration; ministry
  • 政治家せいじか politician; statesman
  • 政局せいきょく political situation
  • 政治的せいじてき political
  • 国政こくせい national politics; political situation; statecraft

Other hanja read “정”

Other hanja with radical 攴

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