劫

See also 刦

Translingual

Han character

劫 (radical 19 力+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土戈大尸 (GIKS), X土戈大尸 (XGIKS), four-corner 4772₀)

1. take by force, coerce
2. disaster

References

• KangXi: page 146, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2316
• Dae Jaweon: page 331, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 367, character 12
• Unihan data for U+52AB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

劫 (Yale gip3)

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Japanese

Kanji

劫

Readings

• On: ごう (gō), きょう (kyō), こう (kō)
• Kun: おびやかす (obiyakasu)

Noun

劫 (hiragana こう, romaji kō)

1. (Buddhism) kalpa

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Korean

Hanja

劫 (hangeul 겁, revised geop, McCune-Reischauer kŏp)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

劫 (pinyin jié (jie2), Wade-Giles chieh²)