Meaning & readings
revelation, tell, inform, announce
On’yomi コク
Kun’yomi つ.げる
Nanori い
Origin
This character combines a picture of a cow or ox (牛, top) with a mouth or opening (口, bottom). The idea is that the cow's mouth is used to make an announcement — when something is proclaimed out loud, it spreads like the sound from an animal's mouth. Over time, the character came to mean "to tell" or "announce" more broadly, representing the act of speaking something aloud so others will hear and know about it.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 7
- Kangxi radical
- 30
- Grade
- Grade 5 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #188 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+0544A