Hanja Analyzer
馘

馘 — goek

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
벨 괵
Romanization
goek
English
cut off left ear; tally dead enemy
Mandarin
guó
Japanese on'yomi
カク, コク, ケキ, ゲキ, キャク
Japanese kun'yomi
くびき.る みみき.る
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
17
Radical
首 (185, 8 residual)
Phonetic component
国
Unicode
U+9998

Parts that make up 馘

  • 首 머리 수 머리털이 난 머리머리와 첫머리. ‘수’ 계열의 소리
  • 或 혹 혹 창으로 지킨 땅‘혹·역·국’ 계열의 소리

How 馘 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 馘 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 首, 或.

Japanese words with 馘

  • 馘首かくしゅ dismissal; discharge; beheading
  • 馘すかくす to behead; to dismiss (from a job); to fire

Characters sharing the phonetic 国

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

Other hanja read “괵”

Other hanja with radical 首

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