箸
箸 — jeo
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 젓가락 저
- Romanization
- jeo
- English
- chopsticks
- Mandarin
- zhù
- Japanese on'yomi
- チョ, チャク, ト
- Japanese kun'yomi
- はし
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #2,156 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 竹 (118, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+7BB8
Parts that make up 箸
How 箸 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 箸 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 竹, 者.
Korean example words with 箸
- 비저匕箸 Korean gloss: 숟가락과 젓가락을 아울러 이르는 말.
- 시저匙箸 Korean gloss: 숟가락과 젓가락을 아울러 이르는 말.
- 하저下箸 Korean gloss: 젓가락을 댄다는 뜻으로, 음식을 먹음을 이르는 말.
- 화저火箸 Korean gloss: 화로에 꽂아 두고 불덩이를 집거나 불을 헤치는 데 쓰는 쇠로 만든 젓가락.
- 은시저銀匙箸 Korean gloss: 은으로 만든 숟가락과 젓가락.
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 箸
- 箸はし chopsticks
- 割り箸わりばし dispensable chopsticks; throwaway chopsticks; chopsticks (hand game)
- 火箸ひばし long metal chopsticks (for handling charcoal, esp. in a brazier); fire tongs
- 箸箱はしばこ chopstick case
- 菜箸さいばし long chopsticks (for cooking, serving, etc.)
- 杉箸すぎばし chopsticks made of cedar
- 匕箸ひちょ spoon and chopsticks
- 箸袋はしぶくろ chopstick envelope; chopstick wrapper; paper envelope in which chopsticks are presented
- 空箸そらばし touching a food with one's chopsticks, then removing them without taking it (a breach of etiquette)
- 涙箸なみだばし dripping liquid (soup, sauce, etc.) from the tips of one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)
- 箸台はしだい chopstick rest
- 箸枕はしまくら chopstick rest
Other hanja read “저”
Other hanja with radical 竹
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences