角

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 3.2 Noun 3.3 Noun 3.4 Noun 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.2.1 Compounds 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

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Stroke order

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Pictogram (象形)

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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角 (radical 148 角+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓月土 (NBG), 弓月手 (NBQ), four-corner 2722₇)

1. horn
2. angle, corner
3. point
4. third note in the Chinese pentatonic scale or mi

[edit] Derived terms

• Index:Chinese radical/角

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• KangXi: page 1139, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35003
• Dae Jaweon: page 1606, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3919, character 1
• Unihan data for U+89D2

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角 (Yale gok3)

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角 (grade 2 kanji)

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• On: かく (kaku), ろく (roku), こく (koku)
• Kun: つの (tsuno), かど (kado), すみ (sumi)

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角 (hiragana かど, romaji kado)

1. A corner (e.g., of a desk; compare 隅).
2. An edge.

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角 (hiragana かく, romaji kaku)

1. An angle.
2. A bishop (shogi). Abbreviation of 角行.

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角 (hiragana つの, romaji tsuno)

1. A horn.

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角 (hangeul 각, 녹, revised gak, nok, McCune-Reischauer kak, nok, Yale kak, nok)

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角 (pinyin jiǎo (jiao3), Wade-Giles chiao³)

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• 八角
• 刃角
• 牛角面包

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角 (*gak)

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角 (giác, góc, dạc, chác, giốc)