Hanja Analyzer
萵

萵 — wa

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
상추 와, 부루 와
Romanization
wa
English
lettuce
Mandarin
wō
Japanese on'yomi
カ, ワ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
11
Radical
艸 (140, 9 residual)
Unicode
U+8435

Parts that make up 萵

  • 艹 풀 초variant of 艸 돋아난 풀잎 둘풀·나물·약초. 글자 위에 얹힌다
  • 咼 입 비뚤어질 괘 한쪽으로 비뚤어진 입‘와·과’ 계열의 소리

How 萵 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 萵 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 艸, 咼.

Japanese words with 萵

  • 萵苣ちしゃ lettuce
  • 菊萵苣きくぢしゃ endive (Cichorium endivia); escarole
  • 野萵苣のぢしゃ corn salad (Valerianella olitoria); lamb's lettuce

Other hanja read “와”

Other hanja with radical 艸

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