Hanja Analyzer
葱

葱 — chong

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
풀 더북할 총
Romanization
chong
English
scallions, leeks, green onions
Mandarin
cōng
Japanese on'yomi
ソウ
Japanese kun'yomi
ねぎ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
12
Variant forms
蔥
Radical
艸 (140, 9 residual)
Unicode
U+8471

Parts that make up 葱

  • 艹 풀 초variant of 艸 돋아난 풀잎 둘풀·나물·약초. 글자 위에 얹힌다
  • 怱 바쁠 총 바쁠 총(悤)의 다른 꼴바쁘다. ‘총’ 계열의 소리

How 葱 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 葱 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 艸, 怱.

Japanese words with 葱

  • 葱ねぎ Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum); Japanese bunching onion; green onion
  • 韮葱にらねぎ broadleaf wild leek (Allium ampeloprasum)
  • 浅葱あさぎ pale blue-green
  • 分葱わけぎ tree onion (Allium x proliferum)
  • 葱鮪ねぎま one-pot meal of green onions and tuna
  • 海葱かいそう white squill (Urginea maritima); sea onion
  • 冬葱ふゆき Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum); Japanese bunching onion
  • 水葱なぎ Monochoria korsakowii (species of flowering plant)
  • 葱油ねぎあぶら scallion oil
  • 葱間ねぎま chicken and scallion skewer
  • 葱坊主ねぎぼうず onion flower head
  • 葱トロねぎトロ tuna minced with Welsh onion leaves (type of sushi topping)

Other hanja read “총”

Other hanja with radical 艸

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