Reading
나 (na) when it starts a word — see below.
Also read 나 (na)
net for catching birds; gauze
새그물 라saegeumul ra
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 새그물 (saegeumul) is the Korean for net for catching birds, and 라 (ra) is the reading. Say 새그물 라 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 19
- Radical
- ⽹ 122
- Beyond radical
- 14
- Mandarin
- luó
- Japanese on
- ra
- Japanese kun
- ami
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 라, but South Korean spelling writes 나 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
나
羅王 나왕 nawang羅列 나열 nayeol羅星 나성 naseong
Elsewhere in the word
라
新羅 신라 silla紫羅 자라 jara文羅 문라 mulla
Vocabulary
Words that use 羅
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
lauan
Character by character net for catching birds + king
Radical ⽹ · 122
Built on the same root.
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.