Hanja Analyzer
茨

茨 — ja

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
남가새 자
Romanization
ja
English
thatching; caltrop, Tribulus terrestris
Mandarin
cí
Japanese on'yomi
シ, ジ
Japanese kun'yomi
いばら かや くさぶき
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 4
Newspaper frequency
#1,203 of 2,500
Strokes
9
Radical
艸 (140, 6 residual)
Phonetic component
次(자)
Unicode
U+8328

Parts that make up 茨

  • 艹 풀 초variant of 艸 돋아난 풀잎 둘풀·나물·약초. 글자 위에 얹힌다
  • 次 버금 차sound 숨을 내쉬는 사람버금. ‘차·자’ 계열의 소리

How 茨 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 茨 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 艸, 次.

Korean example words with 茨

  • 모자茅茨 Korean gloss: 볏과의 여러해살이풀. 줄기는 높이가 30~80cm이고 원뿔형으로 똑바로 서 있으며, 잎은 뿌리에서 뭉쳐난다. 5~6월에 이삭
  • 산자고山茨菰 Korean gloss: 백합과의 여러해살이풀. 높이는 30cm 정도이며, 잎은 선 모양이다. 4~5월에 자주색 줄이 있는 흰색의 꽃이 꽃줄기 끝에 달
  • 야자고野茨菰 Korean gloss: 백합과의 여러해살이풀. 파, 마늘과 비슷한데 봄에 비늘줄기에서 마늘잎 모양의 잎이 두세 개가 난다. 초가을에 잎 사이에서 30

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

Japanese words with 茨

  • 茨いばら thorny shrub; wild rose; briar
  • 茨垣いばらがき thorn hedge
  • 茨藻いばらも spiny water nymph (Najas marina); spiny naiad; holly-leaved naiad
  • 茨城いばらき Ibaraki (prefecture)
  • 茅茨ぼうし thatched roof; cogon grass and thorny shrubs (materials for thatching roofs)
  • 茨城県いばらきけん Ibaraki prefecture
  • 茨の冠いばらのかんむり a crown of thorns
  • 茨の道いばらのみち thorny path
  • 猿捕茨さるとりいばら Smilax china (species of sarsaparilla)
  • 蛇結茨ジャケツイバラ Caesalpinia decapetala var. japonica
  • 茨だらけいばらだらけ thorny; miserable
  • 茨藻海老いばらもえび spiny lebbeid (Lebbeus groenlandicus)

Characters sharing the phonetic 次

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 “자” in Korean.

Other hanja read “자”

Other hanja with radical 艸

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