Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

区 (radical 23 匸+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 尸大 (SK), four-corner 7171₄, composition ⿷匚㐅 or ⿷匸乂)

1. area, district, region, ward
2. a surname

Derived characters

• 欧 殴 駆 (驱) 妪

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 154, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2674
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 81, character 5
• Unihan data for U+533A

Chinese

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 區)

Readings

• Goon: く (ku), う (u)
• Kan’on: く (ku), おう (ō)

Compounds

• 声区 (せいく) ‎(seiku): vocal register

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• (Tokyo) く​ [kúꜜ] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [kɯᵝ]

Noun

区 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 區, hiragana く, romaji ku)

1. ward, section, district

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3