馗
馗 — gyu
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 아홉거리 규
- Romanization
- gyu
- English
- cheekbone; path, road; intersection
- Mandarin
- kuí
- Japanese on'yomi
- キ, ギ, キュウ, グ
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 首 (185, 2 residual)
- Unicode
- U+9997
Japanese words with 馗
- 鍾馗しょうき Shōki the Plague-Queller; Zhong Kui; traditional Chinese deity said to prevent plagues and ward off evil and reputedly able to command 80,000 demons
- 鍾馗蘭しょうきらん Yoania japonica (species of orchid); Lycoris traubii (species of spider lily)
- 鍾馗さんしょうきさん small statue of Shōki the Plague-Queller (placed on the overhang of traditional houses in parts of Kyoto and Nara)
- 鍾馗水仙しょうきずいせん Lycoris traubii (species of spider lily)
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)