Hanja Analyzer
猊

猊 — ye

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
사자 예
Romanization
ye
English
lion; wild beast; wild horse
Mandarin
ní
Japanese on'yomi
ゲイ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
11
Radical
犬 (94, 8 residual)
Phonetic component
兒(예)
Unicode
U+730A

Parts that make up 猊

  • ⺨ 개 견variant of 犬 옆에서 본 개개와 짐승. 왼쪽에서 ⺨ 로 쓴다
  • 兒 아이 아sound 숨구멍이 아직 닫히지 않은 아이아이. ‘아·예’ 계열의 소리

How 猊 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 猊 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 犬, 兒.

Korean example words with 猊

  • 예하猊下 Korean gloss: 고승(高僧)을 높여 이르는 말.
  • 예좌猊座 Korean gloss: 큰곰자리와 처녀자리 사이에 있는 별자리. 황도 십이궁의 다섯째 별자리로, 5월 초순에 자오선을 통과한다. 그리스 신화의 거인

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

Japanese words with 猊

  • 猊下げいか your highness; your grace; your eminence
  • 猊鼻渓げいびけい Geibi Gorge (Ichinoseki, Iwate)

Characters sharing the phonetic 兒

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 “예” in Korean.

倪 唲 堄 掜 睨 蜺 輗 霓 鬩 鯢 鶂 麑

Other hanja read “예”

乂 倪 兑 刈 勩 医 叡 呭 囈 堄 嫛 拽 掜 曳 枘 橤 汭 濊 獩 瘞 睨 睿 瞖 穢 繄 羿 翳 芮 苅 蓺 蕊 蕋 薉 藝 蘂 蚋 蜺 裔 詣 誉 譽 豫 輗 銳 鋭 霓 預 鯢 鷖 麑

Other hanja with radical 犬

犬 犯 犳 犴 犵 状 狀 狁 狂 狃 狄 狉 狎 狐 狒 狗 狙 狡 狢 狥 狨 狩 独 狴 狷 狸 狹 狺 狻 狼 狽 猉 猓 猖 猗 猘 猙 猛 猜 猝 猠 猢 猥 猧 猨 猩 猪 猫 献 猱 猴 猶 猷 猾 猿 獃 獄 獅 獎 獐

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