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갱gaeng

Also read 경 (gyeong)

more, still further, much more; to change, alter

다시 갱dasi gaeng

Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 다시 (dasi) is the Korean for more, and 갱 (gaeng) is the reading. Say 다시 갱 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.

Strokes
7
Radical
⽈ 73
Beyond radical
3
Mandarin
gèng
Japanese on
kou
Japanese kun
sara

Vocabulary

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更新갱신gaengsin

renewal, change to sth new

Character by character more + new

更다시 갱more新새 신new

Radical ⽈ · 73

Built on the same root.

曰왈 wal가로되 왈say曲곡 gok굽을 곡crooked書서 seo쓸 서book替체 che바꿀 체change曾증 jeung일찍 증already會회 hoe모일 회to assemble

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.