12 strokes
Jouyou kanji
Taught in 11th grade

throat, voice

Kun'yomi
  • throat ②singing voice ③gutter (inner margins of a book)
On'yomi
  • コウ
    fish ②counter for fish

Main Radical

(KanXi)

Reading Commonality

のど 99.7%
コウ 0.3%

Character Breakdown

throat, voice
のど コウ (11th)
mouth
くち コウ ク (1st, N4)
marquis, lord, daimyo
コウ (9th, N1)
human radical (no. 9)
yu
dart, arrow
や シ (2nd, N1)
person(人) variant
large, big
ダイ おお- た (1st, N5)
one, one radical (no.1)
イチ いっ ひと- (1st, N5)
person
ひと ニン ジン (1st, N5)

Common Words

throat ②singing voice ③gutter (inner margins of a book)
throat ②important part
feeling of food or drink going down the throat
cold in the throat
thrust at the opponent's throat
to appease one's thirst
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References

Unicode hex code 5589
JIS X 0208 1-25-2
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 960
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 854
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 669
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) 506
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 2164
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 1768
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 3913
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana (2011 edition) 2108
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 3d9.6
Four corner code 6703.4