Hanja Analyzer
癖

癖 — byeok

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
버릇 벽
Romanization
byeok
English
craving, weakness for; indigestion
Mandarin
pǐ
Japanese on'yomi
ヘキ, ヒャク
Japanese kun'yomi
くせ くせ.に
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,973 of 2,500
Strokes
18
Radical
疒 (104, 13 residual)
Phonetic component
辟(벽)
Unicode
U+7656

Parts that make up 癖

  • 疒 병상에 기댄 사람병과 아픔
  • 辟 물리칠 벽, 피할 피sound 법을 집행하는 모습‘벽·피·비’ 계열의 소리

How 癖 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 癖 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 病, 辟.

Korean example words with 癖

  • 괴벽怪癖 Korean gloss: 괴이한 버릇
  • 완벽頑癖 Korean gloss: 완고한 버릇
  • 기벽奇癖 Korean gloss: 남달리 기이한 버릇
  • 성벽性癖 Korean gloss: 굳어진 성질이나 버릇
  • 주벽酒癖 Korean gloss: 술을 마시면 나타나는 버릇
  • 간벽癎癖 Korean gloss: 버럭 신경질을 잘 내는 버릇
  • 도벽盜癖 Korean gloss: 습관적으로 물건을 훔치는 버릇
  • 고벽痼癖 Korean gloss: 아주 굳어져 고치기 어려운 버릇
  • 고벽古癖 Korean gloss: 옛 제도나 풍습을 지나치게 따르는 태도
  • 승벽勝癖 Korean gloss: 남과 겨루어 이기기를 좋아하는 성미나 버릇
  • 습벽習癖 Korean gloss: 오랫동안 자꾸 반복하여 몸에 익어 버린 행동
  • 시벽詩癖 Korean gloss: 시를 짓는 데 드러나는 그 사람 특유의 괴벽

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

Japanese words with 癖

  • 口癖くちぐせ pet saying; favorite phrase; stock phrase
  • 癖くせ habit (usu. a bad one); tendency; peculiarity
  • 潔癖けっぺき fastidiousness; love of cleanliness; uprightness
  • 性癖せいへき disposition; inclination; characteristic
  • 癖にくせに and yet; though; when
  • 一癖ひとくせ trait; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy
  • 奇癖きへき strange habit
  • 習癖しゅうへき (bad) habit
  • 盗癖とうへき propensity to steal; thieving habits; kleptomania
  • 難癖なんくせ fault
  • 偏癖へんぺき eccentricity; crankiness
  • 癇癖かんぺき short temper

Characters sharing the phonetic 辟

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 “벽” in Korean.

Other hanja read “벽”

Other hanja with radical 疒

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