貴
貴 — gwi
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 귀할 귀
- Romanization
- gwi
- English
- expensive, costly, valuable
- Mandarin
- guì
- Japanese on'yomi
- キ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- たっと.い とうと.い たっと.ぶ とうと.ぶ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 6
- Newspaper frequency
- #970 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 貝 (154, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+8CB4
How 貴 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 貴 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 臾, 貝.
Korean example words with 貴
- 귀객貴客 Korean gloss: 귀한 손님
- 귀빈貴賓 Korean gloss: 귀한 손님
- 귀재貴材 Korean gloss: 귀중한 인재
- 고귀高貴 Korean gloss: 훌륭하고 귀중함
- 귀명貴命 Korean gloss: 귀하게 될 운명
- 품귀品貴 Korean gloss: 물건을 구하기 어려움
- 귀골貴骨 Korean gloss: 귀하게 될 사람의 골격
- 귀상貴相 Korean gloss: 귀한 사람이 될 얼굴 생김새
- 귀인貴人 Korean gloss: 사회적 지위가 높고 귀한 사람
- 희귀稀貴 Korean gloss: 드물어서 특이하거나 매우 귀함
- 귀신貴臣 Korean gloss: 상대편의 신하를 높여 이르는 말
- 귀천貴賤 Korean gloss: 신분이나 일 따위의 귀함과 천함
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 貴
- 貴重きちょう precious; valuable
- 貴族きぞく nobility; aristocracy; peerage
- 貴金属ききんぞく precious metal
- 兄貴あにき elder brother; one's senior; older man
- 貴重品きちょうひん valuable article; valuables
- 貴賓きひん noble visitor
- 高貴こうき noble; high and noble; exalted
- 貴婦人きふじん lady; noblewoman
- 富貴ふうき riches and honours (honors); wealth and rank
- 貴社きしゃ your company; your shrine
- 貴人きじん aristocrat; nobleman; dignitary
- 貴公子きこうし young nobleman; scion of a noble family; princely young man
Characters sharing the phonetic 貴
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “귀”
Other hanja with radical 貝
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences