Hanja Analyzer
鸛

鸛 — gwan

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
황새 관
Romanization
gwan
English
crane, Grus japonensis; stork; Ciconia species (various)
Mandarin
guàn
Japanese on'yomi
カン, ガン, ケン, ゲン
Japanese kun'yomi
こうのとり
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
28
Variant forms
雚
Radical
鳥 (196, 18 residual)
Unicode
U+9E1B

How 鸛 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 鸛 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 雚, 鳥.

Japanese words with 鸛

  • 鸛こうのとり stork (esp. the Oriental stork, Ciconia boyciana)
  • 鸛鶴こうづる Oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana)
  • 鍋鸛なべこう black stork (Ciconia nigra)
  • 朱嘴鸛しゅばしこう white stork (Ciconia ciconia)
  • 嘴広鸛はしびろこう shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)
  • 青嘴鸛あおはしこう Abdim's stork (Ciconia abdimii); white-bellied stork
  • 白襟鸛しろえりこう woolly-necked stork (Ciconia episcopus); whitenecked stork
  • 燕尾鸛えんびこう maguari stork (Ciconia maguari)
  • 頭黒禿鸛すぐろはげこう jabiru (Jabiru mycteria)

Other hanja read “관”

Other hanja with radical 鳥

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