Hanja Analyzer
陌

陌 — maek

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
밭두둑길 맥
Romanization
maek
English
foot path between rice fields
Mandarin
mò
Japanese on'yomi
ハク, バク, ミャク
Japanese kun'yomi
まち みち
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
8
Radical
阜 (170, 6 residual)
Phonetic component
百
Unicode
U+964C

Parts that make up 陌

  • ⻖ 언덕 부variant of 阜 층진 언덕언덕과 높낮이. 왼쪽에서 ⻖ 로 쓴다
  • 百 일백 백, 힘쓸 맥sound 하나에 흰 것을 얹은 모양일백. ‘백·맥’ 계열의 소리

How 陌 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 陌 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 阜, 百.

Korean example words with 陌

  • 항맥巷陌 Korean gloss: 도회지의 거리.
  • 자맥紫陌 Korean gloss: 도읍지의 성 밖 교외의 큰길.
  • 천맥阡陌 Korean gloss: ‘경작지’를 달리 이르는 말.
  • 맥상상陌上桑 Korean gloss: 중국 한(漢)나라 때의 민요. 농촌 풍경을 목가적(牧歌的)으로 부른 소박한 노래로, 왕인(王仁)의 아내 나부(羅敷)가 조(趙)

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

Characters sharing the phonetic 百

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

栢 粨 貊

Other hanja read “맥”

脈 脉 貃 貉 貊 貘 霢 驀 麥 麦

Other hanja with radical 阜

阜 阝 阡 阢 阤 阨 阪 阭 阮 阯 阱 防 阻 阼 阽 阿 陀 陂 附 陋 降 陏 限 陔 陘 陛 陜 陝 陞 陟 陡 院 陣 除 陥 陧 陪 陬 陰 陲 陳 陴 陵 陶 陷 陸 険 陻 陼 陽 陾 隄 隅 隆 隈 隉 隊 隋 隍 階

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