Hanja Analyzer
髑

髑 — chok

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
해골 촉
Romanization
chok
English
skull
Mandarin
dú
Japanese on'yomi
ドク, トク
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
22
Radical
骨 (188, 13 residual)
Phonetic component
蜀
Unicode
U+9AD1

Parts that make up 髑

  • 骨 뼈 골 살 붙은 뼈마디뼈와 몸의 틀
  • 蜀 나라이름 촉sound 고개 든 애벌레‘촉·독’ 계열의 소리

How 髑 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 髑 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 骨, 蜀.

Japanese words with 髑

  • 髑髏ドクロ skull (esp. weatherbeaten, used as symbol of death); death's head; cranium
  • がしゃ髑髏がしゃどくろ gashadokuro (mythical giant skeleton monster)

Characters sharing the phonetic 蜀

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

Other hanja read “촉”

Other hanja with radical 骨

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