Meaning & readings
angle, corner, square, horn, antlers
On’yomi カク
Kun’yomi かど、つの
Nanori い、す、すみ、ずみ、ふさ
Origin
This character appears to be a picture of an animal's horn or antler. The curved strokes at the top represent the pointed projection, while the vertical line anchors it to the head. Because horns jut out at angles and come to sharp points, the character naturally came to mean "corner" and "angle" — sharp projections that stick out from a surface, just like a horn sticks out from an animal's head.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (角).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 7
- Kangxi radical
- 148
- Formation type
- Pictographic or simple
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #805 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+089D2