Hanja Analyzer
栖

栖 — seo

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
깃들일[棲] 서
Romanization
seo
English
perch; roost; stay
Mandarin
qī
Japanese on'yomi
セイ, サイ
Japanese kun'yomi
す.む
Japanese usage
Jinmeiyō kanji
Strokes
10
Variant forms
捿 棲
Radical
木 (75, 6 residual)
Phonetic component
西
Unicode
U+6816

Parts that make up 栖

  • 木 나무 목, 나무에 서화를 새길 모 뿌리와 가지를 벌린 나무나무와 나무로 만든 것, 식물
  • 西 Japanese form of 襾 위아래로 덮은 뚜껑덮고 가리는 일. 覀 로 쓴다

How 栖 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 栖 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 木, 西.

Korean example words with 栖

  • 지서무芝栖舞 Korean gloss: 고구려 춤의 하나.
  • 지서가芝栖歌 Korean gloss: 고구려 때 춤곡의 하나. 중국의 ≪수서(隋書)≫와 ≪당서(唐書)≫의 음악지에 전한다.

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

Japanese words with 栖

  • 鷹栖養護学校たかすようごがっこう Takasu Special Needs School (older name style)

Characters sharing the phonetic 西

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “서”

Other hanja with radical 木

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