Hanja Analyzer
淤

淤 — eo

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
앙금 어, 진흙 어
Romanization
eo
English
mud, sediment; clog up, silt up
Mandarin
yū
Japanese on'yomi
オ, ヨ
Japanese kun'yomi
どろ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
11
Radical
水 (85, 8 residual)
Phonetic component
於(어)
Unicode
U+6DE4

Parts that make up 淤

  • 氵 물 수variant of 水 흐르는 물줄기물·액체와 관련된 것, 씻고 적시고 흐르는 일
  • 於 어조사 어, 탄식할 오sound 까마귀를 그린 烏 의 변형‘어·오’ 계열의 소리

How 淤 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 淤 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 水, 於.

Characters sharing the phonetic 於

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 “어” in Korean.

Other hanja read “어”

Other hanja with radical 水

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