Reading
육 (yuk) when it starts a word — see below.
Also read 육 (yuk)
land, continental; army
뭍 륙mut ryuk
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 뭍 (mut) is the Korean for land, and 륙 (ryuk) is the reading. Say 뭍 륙 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- ⾩ 170
- Beyond radical
- 8
- Mandarin
- lù
- Japanese on
- riku
- Japanese kun
- oka
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 륙, but South Korean spelling writes 육 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
육
陸本 육본 yukbon陸上 육상 yuksang
Elsewhere in the word
륙
大陸 대륙 daeryuk上陸 상륙 sangnyuk着陸 착륙 changnyuk
Same sound, different character
2 characters are all read 륙 (ryuk).
Korean has far more hanja than it has syllables, so one sound covers many characters. Write 륙 in hangul and it could be any of these — the hanja is what says which one you mean. That is why hanja still turn up in dictionaries, newspaper headlines and legal writing, where guessing from context is not good enough.
All of them are written 륙 in hangul.
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.