Hanja Analyzer
穀

穀 — gok, gu

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
곡식 곡, 녹봉 구
Romanization
gok, gu
English
corn, grain, cereal; lucky
Mandarin
gǔ
Japanese on'yomi
コク, コウ, ドウ, ヌ
Japanese kun'yomi
たなつもの
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 6
Newspaper frequency
#1,744 of 2,500
Strokes
15
Radical
禾 (115, 10 residual)
Unicode
U+7A40

How 穀 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 穀 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 禾, 𣪊.

Korean example words with 穀

  • 전곡錢穀 Korean gloss: 돈과 곡식
  • 곡가穀價 Korean gloss: 곡식의 가격
  • 곡피穀皮 Korean gloss: 곡식의 껍질
  • 곡량穀糧 Korean gloss: 식량으로 할 낟알
  • 곡주穀酒 Korean gloss: 곡식으로 빚은 술
  • 허곡虛穀 Korean gloss: 알맹이 없는 낟알
  • 양곡糧穀 Korean gloss: 양식으로 쓰는 곡식
  • 신곡新穀 Korean gloss: 당해에 새로 난 곡식
  • 실곡實穀 Korean gloss: 실속 있는 좋은 곡식
  • 창곡倉穀 Korean gloss: 창고에 쌓아 둔 곡식
  • 추곡秋穀 Korean gloss: 가을에 수확하는 곡식
  • 곡출穀出 Korean gloss: 거두어들인 곡식의 수량

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

Japanese words with 穀

  • 穀物こくもつ grain; cereal; corn
  • 米穀べいこく rice
  • 穀倉こくそう granary
  • 雑穀ざっこく assorted grains; cereals; millet
  • 穀類こくるい grains
  • 九穀きゅうこく the nine grains
  • 五穀ごこく the five grains (wheat, rice, beans, millet (awa and kibi))
  • 穀食こくしょく cereal diet; grain-eating
  • 穀粉こくふん (grain) flour
  • 穀粒こくりゅう kernel; grain
  • 脱穀だっこく threshing (e.g. rice)
  • 新穀しんこく new grain

Other hanja read “곡”

Other hanja with radical 禾

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