渴 hanja, meaning thirsty, read 갈 (gal)
Reading
thirsty, parched; yearn, pine
목마를 갈mongmareul gal
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 목마를 (mongmareul) is the Korean for thirsty, and 갈 (gal) is the reading. Say 목마를 갈 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- ⽔ 85
- Beyond radical
- 9
- Mandarin
- kě
- Japanese on
- katsu
- Japanese kun
- kawaku
Vocabulary
Words that use 渴
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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.