Hanja Analyzer
處

處 — cheo

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
곳 처
Romanization
cheo
English
place, locale; department
Mandarin
chù
Japanese on'yomi
ショ, キョ, コ
Japanese kun'yomi
ところ -こ お.る
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
11
Variant forms
処
Radical
虍 (141, 5 residual)
Unicode
U+8655

Parts that make up 處

  • 虍 범의 머리 무늬범과 사나운 것
  • 処 곳 처 곳 처(處)의 일본 신자체곳. ‘처’ 계열의 소리

How 處 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 處 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 虍, 夂, 几.

Korean example words with 處

  • 양처兩處 Korean gloss: 두 곳
  • 원처遠處 Korean gloss: 먼 곳
  • 행처行處 Korean gloss: 간 곳
  • 사처四處 Korean gloss: 여러 곳
  • 타처他處 Korean gloss: 다른 곳
  • 근처近處 Korean gloss: 가까운 곳
  • 도처到處 Korean gloss: 이르는 곳
  • 심처深處 Korean gloss: 깊숙한 곳
  • 급처急處 Korean gloss: 급하게 처분함
  • 처분處分 Korean gloss: 처리하여 치움
  • 고처故處 Korean gloss: 예전에 살던 곳
  • 요처要處 Korean gloss: 가장 중요한 부분

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

Other hanja read “처”

凄 処 妻 悽 淒 萋 褄 覷 郪

Other hanja with radical 虍

彪 虎 虐 虓 虔 虚 虛 虜 虞 號 虡 虢 虧 虩

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