ク, オウ, コウ
ward, district

This kanji has 4 strokes: 2 in the "sideways box" radical (はこがまえ) and 2 other strokes.

Sample compounds (18) :


  1. ward, district, section

  2. いっく
    a district, a ward, a lot

  3. くかく
    division, section, compartment, boundary, area, block

  4. くない
    in the ward or borough

  5. しく
    municipal district, streets

  6. くかい
    ward assembly

  7. くぶん
    division, section, demarcation, (traffic) lane, compartment, classification, sorting

  8. くぎり
    an end, a stop, punctuation

  9. くべつ
    (vs) distinction, differentiation, classification

  10. くかく
    division, section, compartment, boundary, area, block
  11. たる
    くくたる
    several, various, divergent, conflicting
  12. たる
    くくたる
    several, various, divergent, conflicting

  13. ちく
    district, section, sector

  14. がっく
    school district (area)

  15. きょうく
    parish

  16. くぎ
    ward assemblyman

  17. くちょう
    ward headman

  18. くかん
    section (of track, etc)
Kanji Character : 区
Kuten Encoding : 2272
SJIS Encoding : 3668
Unicode Encoding : 533a
Old Nelson Index : 757
Radical Number : 22
Classical Radical Number : 23
Frequency Ranking : 99
Gakken Index : 67
Grade Level : 3
Halpern Index : 2963
Heisig Index : 1696
Henshall Index : 465
New Nelson Index : 585
Stroke Count : 4
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 2t2.1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 2
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 2
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : t
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 183
SKIP Code : 3-2-2
De Roo Code : 3475
Four Corner Code : 7171.4
Korean reading : u
Pinyin reading : ou1
Morohashi Index String : 2674
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 2.0474
Morohashi Index Number : 2674
Morohashi Page : 474
Morohashi Volume : 2
Cross Index Codes
  1. J0523F
Dictionary Codes
  1. R3475
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