Entry
  1. Noun

    wokou; wakō; Japanese pirates who raided the Chinese and Korean coastlines between the 13th and 16th centuries

    Historical termname orig. used in China and Korea

Also written 和寇【わこう】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

Yamato, ancient Japan

Kun
やまとしたが.う
On
Strokes
10
Taught
Jinmeiyō
JLPT
N1
Frequency
2098 of 2500
Radical
person

Built from

Used in names as

まさやす

Dictionary and index codes (18)
CodeReference
1-2-8SKIP code
2a8.16The Kanji Dictionary
2224.4Four corner code
502dUnicode hex code
1-47-33JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
475Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
242New Nelson (John Haig)
140Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
94Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
107Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2106Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2244Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1283Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
796Morohashi
2019Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
wo1Pinyin reading
wi, waeKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

bandits, thieves, enemy, invade

Kun
あだ.する
On
コウ
Strokes
11
Radical
roof

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (10)
CodeReference
2-3-8SKIP code
3m8.10The Kanji Dictionary
3021.4Four corner code
5bc7Unicode hex code
1-53-68JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1313Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1339New Nelson (John Haig)
7209Morohashi
kou4Pinyin reading
guKorean reading