Hanja Analyzer
鋭

鋭 — ye, tae

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

This is the Japanese glyph form. The Korean form is 銳.

Korean reading
날카로울 예, 창 태
Romanization
ye, tae
English
sharp
Mandarin
ruì
Japanese on'yomi
エイ, タイ, エツ
Japanese kun'yomi
するど.い
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,395 of 2,500
Strokes
15
Variant forms
銳
Radical
金 (167, 7 residual)
Unicode
U+92ED

Parts that make up 鋭

  • 金 쇠 금, 성(姓) 김 흙 속에 묻힌 쇳덩이쇠붙이와 쇠로 만든 것, 돈
  • 兌 바꿀/기쁠 태, 날카로울 예 입을 벌려 웃는 사람‘태·탈·열·세’ 계열의 소리

How 鋭 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 鋭 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 金, 兌.

Japanese words with 鋭

  • 新鋭しんえい young and energetic; up-and-coming; new and excellent
  • 鋭いするどい sharp (knife, claws, etc.); pointed; sharp (pain, tone, etc.)
  • 精鋭せいえい elite; best; pick
  • 気鋭きえい spirited; energetic
  • 鋭利えいり sharp; keen; acute
  • 先鋭せんえい radical; acute; sharp
  • 鋭角えいかく acute angle
  • 鋭敏えいびん sharp (eyes, ears, etc.); keen; acute
  • 鋭意えいい eagerly; earnestly; zealously
  • 最新鋭さいしんえい state-of-the-art; cutting-edge
  • 鋭えい sharpness; sharp weapon; blade
  • 鋭感えいかん sensitiveness; sensitivity; delicacy (e.g. of feeling)

Other hanja read “예”

Other hanja with radical 金

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