Hanja Analyzer
顱

顱 — ro

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
머리뼈 로
Romanization
ro
English
skull
Mandarin
lú
Japanese on'yomi
ロ
Japanese kun'yomi
かしら あたま
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
25
Variant forms
髗 鸕
Radical
頁 (181, 16 residual)
Phonetic component
盧(로)
Unicode
U+9871

Parts that make up 顱

  • 盧 성(姓) 로sound 불 위에 얹은 화로‘로’ 계열의 소리
  • 頁 머리 혈 몸 위에 얹힌 머리머리와 얼굴, 머리로 하는 일

How 顱 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 顱 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 盧, 頁.

Japanese words with 顱

  • 円顱えんろ tonsure; shaven head
  • 顱骨ろこつ skull
  • 顱頂ろちょう top of the head; vertex; parietal
  • 頭顱とうろ head; skull
  • 顱頂眼ろちょうがん parietal eye; third eye; pineal eye

Characters sharing the phonetic 盧

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 “로” in Korean.

Other hanja read “로”

Other hanja with radical 頁

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