寇 — kanji meaning “bandits”
寇
bandits, thieves, enemy, invade
- Meanings
- bandits, thieves, enemy, invade
- On'yomi
- コウ (kou)
- Kun'yomi
- あだ.する
- Strokes
- 11
- Classical radical
- 40
- Chinese reading
- kòu — Chinese character page
Words with 寇
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 入寇 | にゅうこう nyuukou | invasion; incursion |
| 元寇 | げんこう genkou | Mongol invasions of Japan (1274, 1281) |
| 倭寇 | わこう wakou | wokou; wakō; Japanese pirates who raided the Chinese and Korean coastlines between the 13th and 16th centuries |
| 司寇 | しこう shikou | Minister of Justice (Zhou dynasty China) |
| 寇する | こうする kousuru | to invade |
| 来寇 | らいこう raikou | invasion; raid; inroad |
| 侵寇 | しんこう shinkou | harmful military conquest; occupation of other countries |
| 外寇 | がいこう gaikou | foreign invasion; foreign attack; foreign force |
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