Hanja Analyzer
類

類 — ryu

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
무리 류
Romanization
ryu
English
class, group, kind, category
Mandarin
lèi
Japanese on'yomi
ルイ, ライ, リツ
Japanese kun'yomi
たぐ.い
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 4
Newspaper frequency
#678 of 2,500
Strokes
19
Radical
頁 (181, 10 residual)
Unicode
U+985E

How 類 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 類 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 頪, 犬.

Korean example words with 類

  • 죽류粥類 Korean gloss: 죽 부류
  • 주류酒類 Korean gloss: 술의 종류
  • 품류品類 Korean gloss: 물건의 종류
  • 유례類例 Korean gloss: 같거나 비슷한 예
  • 생류生類 Korean gloss: 생명을 가진 존재들
  • 유어類語 Korean gloss: 뜻이 서로 비슷한 말
  • 종류種類 Korean gloss: 사물의 부문을 나누는 갈래
  • 탕류湯類 Korean gloss: ‘탕’을 통틀어 이르는 말
  • 당류黨類 Korean gloss: 같은 무리나 편에 드는 사람들
  • 면류麵類 Korean gloss: 밀국수나 메밀국수 따위의 국수류
  • 육류肉類 Korean gloss: 먹을 수 있는 짐승의 고기 종류
  • 의류衣類 Korean gloss: 여러 가지 옷을 통틀어 이르는 말

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

Japanese words with 類

  • 人類じんるい mankind; humanity
  • 種類しゅるい variety; kind; type
  • 書類しょるい document; papers
  • 親類しんるい relative; relation; kin
  • 衣類いるい clothes; clothing; garments
  • 分類ぶんるい classification; categorization; sorting
  • 類似るいじ resemblance; similarity; likeness
  • 酒類しゅるい alcoholic drinks; liquor
  • 鳥類ちょうるい birds
  • 人類学じんるいがく anthropology
  • 魚介類ぎょかいるい marine products; seafood; fish and shellfish
  • 魚類ぎょるい fish; fishes

Other hanja read “류”

Other hanja with radical 頁

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