Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
house on cliff 广
Parts:
广

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On reading compounds

  • 廓 【クルワ】 district, quarter, enclosure, area enclosed by earthwork, red-light district, wide and empty
  • 廓清 【カクセイ】 purification, cleaning up, purging
  • 外郭 【ガイカク】 outer fence, outer enclosure, outer block, outline, contour
  • 遊郭 【ユウカク】 (licensed) red light district

Kun reading compounds

  • 廓 【くるわ】 district, quarter, enclosure, area enclosed by earthwork, red-light district, wide and empty
  • 郭言葉 【くるわことば】 sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts (Edo period), vulgar words used by prostitutes (Edo period)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kuo4
Korean:
hwag, gwag

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2239 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3923 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
9461 Morohashi
3163 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1633 New Nelson (John Haig)
2235 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2342 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3q9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-11 SKIP code
3-3-9 SKIP code
3-3-10 SKIP code
0022.7 Four corner code
1-19-39 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ed3 Unicode hex code