瓦

  • roof tile;

It refers broadly to baked pottery. Such baked pottery was also used for roofing material, which is specifically called "giwa" (기와) in Korean, meaning roof tiles.

Etymology

瓦 is a pictograph depicting roof tiles interlocking with each other.

In Japan, during the Meiji Restoration when Western natural science terminology was introduced, the unit of weight "gram" was represented by 瓦.

瓦
기와
와
giwa
wa
Kangxi radical:98
Strokes:5
Unicode:U+74E6
Cangjie input:
  • 一女弓戈 (MVNI)
Composition:
  • ⿵⿸⿱ 一 𠄌 ㇈ 丶 (G)
  • ⿵⿸⿱ 丅 ㇀ ㇈ 丶 (H T J K V)
Writing order
瓦 Writing order

Neighboring radicals in the dictionary

References

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