Hanja Analyzer
軒

軒 — heon

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
집 헌
Romanization
heon
English
carriage; high; wide; balcony; surname of the Yellow Emperor
Mandarin
xuān
Japanese on'yomi
ケン, コン, カン
Japanese kun'yomi
のき
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,416 of 2,500
Strokes
10
Radical
車 (159, 3 residual)
Phonetic component
干
Unicode
U+8ED2

Parts that make up 軒

  • 車 수레 거, 수레 차 위에서 본 수레수레와 바퀴 달린 것
  • 干 방패 간, 생강 강sound 갈래진 방패막고 겨루는 일. ‘간·한’ 계열의 소리

How 軒 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 軒 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 車, 干.

Korean example words with 軒

  • 헌등軒燈 Korean gloss: 처마에 다는 등
  • 헌창하다軒敞 Korean gloss: 드높고 넓다
  • 임헌하다臨軒 Korean gloss: 임금이 대(臺)에 나와 앉다
  • 내동헌內東軒 Korean gloss: 조선 시대에, 지방 관아에 있던 안채
  • 헌별軒別 Korean gloss: 집집마다.
  • 비헌飛軒 Korean gloss: 높은 처마.
  • 헌수軒數 Korean gloss: 집의 수효.
  • 헌영軒楹 Korean gloss: 마루의 기둥.
  • 회헌晦軒 Korean gloss: ‘안향’의 호.
  • 다헌茶軒 Korean gloss: ‘정극인’의 호.
  • 담헌湛軒 Korean gloss: ‘홍대용’의 호.
  • 상헌橡軒 Korean gloss: ‘안정복’의 호.

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

Japanese words with 軒

  • 軒のき eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
  • 軒並みのきなみ row of houses; every house; each house
  • 軒先のきさき edge of the eaves; house frontage
  • 軒下のきした under the eaves
  • 一軒家いっけんや detached house; single house; single building
  • 一軒いっけん one house
  • 軒昂けんこう high-spirited; in high spirits
  • 軒数けんすう number of houses
  • 軒灯けんとう lamp or electric light at the eaves of a house; door light
  • 軒丈のきたけ height from the ground to a building's eaves
  • 軒別けんべつ house to house
  • 軒輊けんち high and low; disparity

Characters sharing the phonetic 干

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “헌”

Other hanja with radical 車

Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences