The kanji 孔: meaning, readings and stroke order

孔

Meaning: hole
On reading: コウ kou
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 4
Radical: 子 child, seed
Level: Level 8 · the last years of junior high

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: lỗ (khổng)
Japanese: あな。
Korean: 구멍 (공)
Chinese: 孔、小洞

Readings, words and example sentences

コウ kou · on reading · less common

気き孔こう
stoma (tiny breathing hole in a leaf)
葉の 気き孔こうをけんび鏡で見ます。
We look at the tiny breathing holes of a leaf under a microscope.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.