突 hanja, meaning suddenly, read 돌 (dol)

Reading

돌dol

suddenly, abruptly, unexpectedly

갑자기 돌gapjagi dol

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

Strokes
9
Radical
⽳ 116
Beyond radical
4
Mandarin
tū
Japanese on
totsu
Japanese kun
tsuku

Vocabulary

Words that use 突

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突起돌기dolgi

prominency, protuberance

Character by character suddenly + rise

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.