區

See also 区

Translingual

simpl.		区
trad.		區

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 匸 + 品 (“three men”)

Many people(品) hide in 匸

Han character

區 (radical 23 匸+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 尸口口口 (SRRR), four-corner 7171₆, composition ⿷匸品)

1. area, district, region, ward
2. A surname

Derived characters

• 歐 毆 驅 嫗

Descendants

• 区

References

• KangXi: page 155, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2691
• Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 87, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5340

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Cantonese

Hanzi

區 (simplified 区, Yale au¹, Au¹, keui¹)

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Japanese

Kanji

區

Readings

• On: く (ku), おう (ō), こう (kō)
• Kun: わける (wakeru), しきる (shikiru)

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Korean

Hanja

區 (hangeul 구, 우, revised gu, u, McCune-Reischauer ku, u)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

區 (simplified 区, pinyin qū (qu1), Ōu (Ou1), Wade-Giles ch'ü¹, Ou¹)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

區 (POJ khu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

區 (khu, khù, au, âu)