Reading

beop

law, rule, regulation, statute; France, French

법 법beop beop

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

Strokes
8
Radical
⽔ 85
Beyond radical
5
Mandarin
Japanese on
hou
Japanese kun
nori

Vocabulary

Words that use

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法家법가beopga

sb familiar with the law. Perhaps, an ancient Chinese lawyer in the BC e

Character by character law + house

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.