書
書 — seo
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 글 서
- Romanization
- seo
- English
- book, letter, document; writings
- Mandarin
- shū
- Japanese on'yomi
- ショ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- か.く -が.き -がき
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #169 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 曰 (73, 6 residual)
- Unicode
- U+66F8
Parts that make up 書
How 書 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 書 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 聿, 者.
Korean example words with 書
- 독서讀書 Korean gloss: 책을 읽음
- 서명書名 Korean gloss: 책의 이름
- 진서珍書 Korean gloss: 진귀한 책
- 친서親書 Korean gloss: 몸소 쓴 편지
- 유서遺書 Korean gloss: 유언을 적은 글
- 역서譯書 Korean gloss: 번역한 책이나 글
- 희서稀書 Korean gloss: 보기 드문 귀한 책
- 병서兵書 Korean gloss: 병법에 대하여 쓴 책
- 사서司書 Korean gloss: 서적을 맡아보는 직분
- 사서私書 Korean gloss: 개인의 사사로운 편지
- 서가書家 Korean gloss: 글씨를 잘 쓰는 사람
- 서생書生 Korean gloss: 유학을 공부하는 사람
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 書
- 書記しょき clerk; secretary; writing down
- 秘書ひしょ (private) secretary; treasured book; secret book
- 文書ぶんしょ document; writing; letter
- 報告書ほうこくしょ (written) report
- 書店しょてん bookshop; bookstore
- 著書ちょしょ (written) work; book; writings
- 白書はくしょ white paper (government report)
- 教科書きょうかしょ textbook; coursebook; schoolbook
- 書類しょるい document; papers
- 読書どくしょ reading (books)
- 図書館としょかん library
- 書簡しょかん letter; note; epistle
Other hanja read “서”
Other hanja with radical 曰
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