構

See also 构, and 横

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 冓

Han character

構 (radical 75 木+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木廿廿月 (DTTB), four-corner 4594₇)

1. frame, building, structure

References

• KangXi: page 546, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15317
• Dae Jaweon: page 933, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1259, character 7
• Unihan data for U+69CB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

構 (simplified 构, Yale kau3)

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Japanese

Kanji

構 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: かまえる (構える, kamaeru), かまえ (構え, kamae), かまう (構う, kamau)

Compounds

• 構外
• 構成
• 構図
• 構想
• 構造
• 構築
• 構内
• 構文

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Korean

Hanja

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

Wikipedia

1. to build, construct (얽다)
2. paper mulberry (꾸지나무, 닥나무)

Synomyms

• (paper mulberry): 榖
• (paper mulberry): 楮

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Mandarin

Hanzi

構 (simplified 构, pinyin gòu (gou4), Wade-Giles kou⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

構 (cấu)