甍
甍 — maeng
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 용마루 맹
- Romanization
- maeng
- English
- rafters supporting roof tiles
- Mandarin
- méng
- Japanese on'yomi
- ボウ, ミョウ, ベイ, モウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- いらか
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 瓦 (98, 11 residual)
- Unicode
- U+750D
How 甍 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 甍 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 夢, 瓦.
Japanese words with 甍
- 甍いらか roof tile; tiled roof; objects crowded together (e.g. houses)
- 甍段いらかだん corbie-step; corbel gable; crowsteps
Other hanja read “맹”
Other hanja with radical 瓦
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences