Hanja Analyzer
郤

郤 — geuk

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
틈 극
Romanization
geuk
English
crack, opening; surname
Mandarin
xì
Japanese on'yomi
ケキ, ゲキ, キャク
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
9
Radical
邑 (163, 7 residual)
Phonetic component
谷
Unicode
U+90E4

Parts that make up 郤

  • 谷 골 곡, 성씨 욕sound 물이 흘러나오는 골짜기골짜기. ‘곡·욕’ 계열의 소리
  • ⻏ 고을 읍variant of 邑 사람이 모여 사는 터고을과 지명. 오른쪽에서 ⻏ 로 쓴다

How 郤 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 郤 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 𧮫, 邑.

Characters sharing the phonetic 谷

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

Other hanja read “극”

Other hanja with radical 邑

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