厚

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 厂 + 𣆪

Han character

厚 (radical 27 厂+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一日弓木 (MAND), four-corner 7124₇)

1. thick
2. substantial
3. greatly

References

• KangXi: page 161, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2949
• Dae Jaweon: page 368, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 72, character 6
• Unihan data for U+539A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

厚 (Yale hau5)

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Japanese

Kanji

厚 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: あつい (厚い, atsui)

Compounds

温厚 (おんこう, onkō) 厚顔無恥 (こうがんむち, kōganmuchi) 深厚 (しんこう, shinkō)

厚生 (こうせい, kōsei) 厚労省 (こうろうしょう, kōrōshō) 厚労相 (こうろうしょう, kōrōshō)

氷厚 (ひょうこう, hyōkō)

Proper noun

厚 (hiragana あつし, romaji Atsushi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

厚 (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune-Reischauer hu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

厚 (pinyin hòu (hou4), Wade-Giles hou⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

厚 (hậu)