狗 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

puppy, dog

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • コウ
Kun (native)
  • いぬ
Other languages
  • 拼音gou3
  • 한글gu
  • Hán-ViệtCẩu

Basics

Strokes
8 strokes
Radical
犬(いぬ)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+72D7

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰犭句

Words using this kanji

  • 狗肉くにくdog meat, dog flesh
  • 狗屠くとdog slaughter, killing of dogs, dog butcher
  • 狗吠くはいdog bark
  • 狗尾草エノコログサgreen foxtail (Setaria viridis), green bristlegrass
  • 狗母魚えそ「えそ」の漢字表記。lizardfish (any fish of family Synodontidae)
  • 狗奴国くなこくKuna-koku
  • 狗子仏性くしぶっしょうthe Mu koan ("does a dog have Buddha nature?")

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(49 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-5
Four Corner
4722.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3g5.5
Heisig
2430
Nelson
2875