論 hanja, meaning debate, read 론 (ron)
Reading
논 (non) when it starts a word (see below).
Also read 논 (non)
debate; discuss; discourse
논할 론nonhal ron
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 논할 (nonhal) is the Korean for debate, and 론 (ron) is the reading. Say 논할 론 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- ⾔ 149
- Beyond radical
- 8
- Mandarin
- lùn
- Japanese on
- ron
- Japanese kun
- agetsurau
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 론, but South Korean spelling writes 논 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
논
論文 논문 nonmun論法 논법 nonbeop論外 논외 nonoe
Elsewhere in the word
론
反論 반론 ballon正論 정론 jeongnon
Vocabulary
Words that use 論
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
Dissertations, an academic paper (these are 2 separate meanings)
Character by character debate + literature
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.