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瑚: ancestral offering receptacle, coral

JLPT N113 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met

王 carries the meaning · 胡 is drawn in

13 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ゴgo · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 珊瑚礁さんごしょうcoral reef
  • 脳珊瑚のうさんごbrain coral
  • 珊瑚海さんごかいCoral Sea

Also read コ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“A treasure for royalty! While it looks like a "king," the true soul of this radical is "jade."”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
瑚 ancestral offering receptacle · 王
vs湖 lake · 氵
瑚 has 王 where 湖 has 氵.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · hú

Same form: 瑚 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
瑚 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
瑚 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin hú most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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