鉱

See also 鑛, and 礦

Translingual

Etymology

Japanese Simplified from 鑛 (廣 → 広).

In current form, 金 (“metal”) + 広.

Han character

鉱 (radical 167 金+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金戈戈 (CII), X金戈戈 (XCII))

1. mine
2. mineral, ore

Related characters

• 鑛 礦 砿

See also

• 鈎

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1303, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40340
• Dae Jaweon: page 1804, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 6, page 4190, character 11
• Unihan data for U+9271

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Japanese

Kanji

鉱 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: あらがね (aragane)

Compounds

• 鉱業
• 鉱石
• 炭鉱
• 鎔鉱炉, 溶鉱炉

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Korean

Hanja

鉱 (hangeul 광, revised gwang, McCune-Reischauer kwang, Yale kwang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鉱 (pinyin kuàng (kuang4), Wade-Giles k'uang⁴)