毆

See also 殴

Translingual

simpl.		殴
trad.		毆

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 區 + semantic 殳 (“action”).

Han character

毆 (radical 79 殳+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸口竹弓水 (SRHNE), four-corner 7774₇)

1. beat, fight with fists, hit
2. to strike, brawl
3. A surname, listed 361st among the Hundred Family Surnames

Descendants

• 殴

References

• KangXi: page 587, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16674
• Dae Jaweon: page 979, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2165, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6BC6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

毆 (simplified 殴, Yale au², Au²)

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Japanese

Kanji

毆

Readings

• On: おう (ō), く (ku)
• Kun: なぐる (naguru)

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Korean

Hanja

毆 (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

毆 (simplified 殴, pinyin ōu (ou1), Ōu (Ou1), Wade-Giles ou¹, Ou¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

毆 (ẩu)