堠

堠 U+5820, 堠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5820 ← 堟 [U+581F] CJK Unified Ideographs 堡 → [U+5821]

Translingual

Han character

堠 (radical 32, 土+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土人弓大 (GONK), four-corner 4713₄, composition ⿰土侯)

1. earthen watchtower
2. battlements, battlemented walls

References

• KangXi: page 233, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5253
• Dae Jaweon: page 470, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 465, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5820

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Cantonese

Hanzi

堠 (Jyutping hau6, Yale hau6)

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Japanese

Kanji

堠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. battlements
2. battlemented walls

Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō), く (ku)
• Kun: ものみ (monomi)

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Korean

Hanja

堠 • (hu) (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune–Reischauer hu)

1. high ground, heights
2. watchtower

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Mandarin

Hanzi

堠 (Pinyin hòu (hou4), Wade-Giles hou⁴)

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