Hanja Analyzer
鴎

鴎 — gu

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

This is not the standard Korean glyph form. The Korean form is 鷗.

Korean reading
갈매기 구
Romanization
gu
English
seagull, tern
Mandarin
ōu
Japanese on'yomi
オウ, オ, ク, イウ, ウ
Japanese kun'yomi
かもめ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Newspaper frequency
#2,187 of 2,500
Strokes
15
Variant forms
鷗
Radical
鳥 (196, 4 residual)
Unicode
U+9D0E

Parts that make up 鴎

  • 区 구분할 구, 숨길 우 구분할 구(區)의 일본 신자체나눈 구역. ‘구’ 계열의 소리
  • 鳥 새 조 꽁지 긴 새새의 이름과 새가 하는 짓

Japanese words with 鴎

  • 鴎カモメ common gull (Larus canus); gull (Laridae spp.); seagull
  • 鴎髱かもめづと chignon resembling a seagull's spread tail feathers (Edo-period women's hairstyle)
  • 白鴎しろかもめ glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus); burgomaster
  • 鷲鴎ワシカモメ glaucous-winged gull (Larus glaucescens)
  • 三趾鴎ミツユビカモメ black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
  • 百合鴎ゆりかもめ black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus); hooded gull
  • 笑い鴎わらいかもめ laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)
  • 背黒鴎せぐろかもめ herring gull (Larus argentatus)
  • 盗賊鴎トウゾクカモメ skua (any bird of family Stercorariidae, incl. the jaegers); pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus); pomarine skua
  • 水鴎流すいおうりゅう old sword fighting; sword drawing style or school from Shizuoka prefecture
  • フルマ鴎フルマかもめ northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
  • 黒盗賊鴎くろとうぞくかもめ parasitic jaeger; Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)

Other hanja read “구”

Other hanja with radical 鳥

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