Hanja Analyzer
肚

肚 — du

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
밥통 두
Romanization
du
English
belly; abdomen; bowels
Mandarin
dù
Japanese on'yomi
ト, ズ
Japanese kun'yomi
はら
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
7
Radical
肉 (130, 3 residual)
Phonetic component
土(두)
Unicode
U+809A

Parts that make up 肚

  • 月 고기 육, 둘레 유variant of 肉 저며 놓은 고깃덩이몸의 살과 장기. 왼쪽·아래에서 月 로 쓴다
  • 土 흙 토, 뿌리 두sound 땅 위에 쌓인 흙더미흙·땅과 그 위에 세운 것

How 肚 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 肚 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 肉, 土.

Japanese words with 肚

  • 肚裏とり in the heart

Characters sharing the phonetic 土

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 “두” in Korean.

Other hanja read “두”

Other hanja with radical 肉

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