Reading

gul

bend, flex; bent, crooked; crouch

굽을 굴gubeul gul

Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 굽을 (gubeul) is the Korean for bend, and (gul) is the reading. Say 굽을 굴 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.

Strokes
8
Radical
⼫ 44
Beyond radical
5
Mandarin
Japanese on
kutsu
Japanese kun
kagamu

Vocabulary

Words that use

Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.

屈服굴복gulbok

surrender, submission

Character by character bend + clothes

Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.