Hanja Analyzer
鉾

鉾 — mo

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
칼 끝 모
Romanization
mo
English
spear
Mandarin
móu
Japanese on'yomi
ボウ, ム
Japanese kun'yomi
ほこ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Newspaper frequency
#2,453 of 2,500
Strokes
14
Radical
金 (167, 6 residual)
Unicode
U+927E

Parts that make up 鉾

  • 金 쇠 금, 성(姓) 김 흙 속에 묻힌 쇳덩이쇠붙이와 쇠로 만든 것, 돈
  • 牟 성(姓)/보리[大麥] 모

How 鉾 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 鉾 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 金, 牟.

Japanese words with 鉾

  • 山鉾やまぼこ festival float mounted with a decorative halberd
  • 蒲鉾かまぼこ kamaboko; steamed seasoned fish paste, usu. in a semicylindrical shape on a strip of wood and sliced to go in soup, etc.
  • 傘鉾かさぼこ combined umbrella and halberd carried on floats in some festivals
  • 筋蒲鉾すじかまぼこ gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.)
  • 鯱鉾立ちさっちょこだち handstand; headstand

Other hanja read “모”

Other hanja with radical 金

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