Hanja Analyzer
箍

箍 — go

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
테 고
Romanization
go
English
hoop; bind, surround
Mandarin
gū
Japanese on'yomi
コ, ク
Japanese kun'yomi
たが
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
14
Radical
竹 (118, 8 residual)
Unicode
U+7B8D

How 箍 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 箍 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 竹, 㧜.

Japanese words with 箍

  • 箍タガ hoop (of a barrel, bucket, etc.); discipline; solidarity
  • 緊箍児きんこじ magical circlet given from Guanyin to Xuanzang used to control Sun Wukong (from A Journey To The West)
  • 箍を締めるたがをしめる to pull oneself together; to get one's act together; to brace oneself
  • 箍を嵌めるたがをはめる to hoop; to put a hoop on; to bind a barrel with hoops

Other hanja read “고”

Other hanja with radical 竹

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