Hanja Analyzer
贋

贋 — an

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
가짜 안
Romanization
an
English
false; counterfeit; bogus; sham
Mandarin
yàn
Japanese on'yomi
ガン, カン
Japanese kun'yomi
にせ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Newspaper frequency
#2,439 of 2,500
Strokes
19
Radical
貝 (154, 12 residual)
Unicode
U+8D0B

Parts that make up 贋

  • 雁 기러기 안 벼랑 아래 줄지어 나는 새기러기. ‘안’ 계열의 소리
  • 貝 조개 패 조개껍데기돈과 재물. 옛날에 조개를 돈으로 썼다

How 贋 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 贋 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 雁, 貝.

Japanese words with 贋

  • 贋作がんさく fake (work); counterfeit
  • 真贋しんがん genuineness or spuriousness; authenticity; the genuine and the spurious
  • 贋金にせがね counterfeit money
  • 贋首にせくび falsified severed head
  • 贋造がんぞう counterfeiting; forgery; fabrication
  • 贋札がんさつ counterfeit bill; counterfeit note
  • 贋作者がんさくしゃ counterfeiter; faker; appropriationist
  • 贋造紙幣がんぞうしへい counterfeit paper money
  • 真贋論争しんがんろんそう argument as to (about) the authenticity (of ...)
  • 贋アカシアにせアカシア black locust; robinia pseudoacacia

Other hanja read “안”

侒 偐 喭 安 岸 按 晏 案 桉 犴 眼 雁 鞍 顏 顔 鮟 鴈

Other hanja with radical 貝

貝 貞 負 財 貢 貧 貨 販 貪 貫 責 貯 貰 貲 貳 貴 貶 買 貸 貺 費 貼 貽 貿 賀 賁 賂 賃 賄 賆 資 賈 賊 賑 賓 賔 賙 賚 賛 賜 賞 賠 賡 賢 賣 賤 賦 質 賫 賬 賭 賰 賴 賻 購 賽 賾 贄 贅 贇

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