蠍
蠍 — gal
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 전갈 갈
- Romanization
- gal
- English
- scorpion
- Mandarin
- xiē
- Japanese on'yomi
- カツ, ケツ, コチ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- さそり
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 19
- Radical
- 虫 (142, 13 residual)
- Unicode
- U+880D
Parts that make up 蠍
How 蠍 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 蠍 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 虫, 歇.
Japanese words with 蠍
- 蠍さそり scorpion (Scorpiones spp.)
- 蠍擬さそりもどき whip scorpion (Thelyphonida spp.)
- 海蠍うみさそり eurypterid
- 天蠍宮てんかつきゅう Scorpio (8th zodiacal sign); the Scorpion
Other hanja read “갈”
Other hanja with radical 虫
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