Reading

sung

esteem, honor, revere, venerate

높을 숭nopeul sung

Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 높을 (nopeul) is the Korean for esteem, and (sung) is the reading. Say 높을 숭 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.

Strokes
11
Radical
⼭ 46
Beyond radical
8
Mandarin
chóng
Japanese on
suu
Japanese kun
takai

Vocabulary

Words that use

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崇拜숭배sungbae

adoration, apotheosis

Character by character esteem + do obeisance

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.