雄 hanja, meaning male of species, read 웅 (ung)
Reading
male of species; hero; manly
수컷 웅sukeot ung
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 수컷 (sukeot) is the Korean for male of species, and 웅 (ung) is the reading. Say 수컷 웅 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- ⾫ 172
- Beyond radical
- 4
- Mandarin
- xióng
- Japanese on
- yuu
- Japanese kun
- osu
Vocabulary
Words that use 雄
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
grandeur, grandness
Character by character male of species + big
Radical ⾫ · 172
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.