Hanja Analyzer
鄂

鄂 — ak

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
땅이름 악
Romanization
ak
English
Hubei province; startled
Mandarin
è
Japanese on'yomi
ガク
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
11
Radical
邑 (163, 9 residual)
Phonetic component
咢(악)
Unicode
U+9102

Parts that make up 鄂

  • 咢 깜짝놀랄 악sound 서로 맞대어 지르는 소리‘악·안’ 계열의 소리
  • ⻏ 고을 읍variant of 邑 사람이 모여 사는 터고을과 지명. 오른쪽에서 ⻏ 로 쓴다

How 鄂 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 鄂 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 咢, 邑.

Korean example words with 鄂

  • 악주鄂州 Korean gloss: ‘우창’의 옛 이름.

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

Characters sharing the phonetic 咢

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “악” in Korean.

Other hanja read “악”

Other hanja with radical 邑

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