Reading
염 (yeom) when it starts a word — see below.
Also read 염 (yeom)
think of, recall, study
생각 념saenggak nyeom
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 생각 (saenggak) is the Korean for think of, and 념 (nyeom) is the reading. Say 생각 념 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- ⼼ 61
- Beyond radical
- 4
- Mandarin
- niàn
- Japanese on
- nen
- Japanese kun
- omou
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 념, but South Korean spelling writes 염 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
염
Elsewhere in the word
념
掛念 괘념 gwaenyeom信念 신념 sinnyeom一念 일념 illyeom
Vocabulary
Words that use 念
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
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.