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KANJI: KOU kanga (consider)

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Character Etymology:

A highly stylized ideograph showing a man with long hair combined with the radical that means twisting waterweed to yield the meaning of an old man bent and twisted with age. This meaning can still be found in Chinese.

The present-day meaning of consider is most likely an extension of the idea that there is wisdom contained within a man in such a condition.

A Listing of All On-Yomi and Kun-Yomi Readings:

on-yomi: KOU
kun-yomi: kanga(eru) kanga(e)

Nanori Readings:

Nanori: taka

English Definitions:

  1. KOU: thought, consideration; research, treatise.
  2. kanga(eru): think, consider, believe, suspect; intend; expect, hope, fear; judge, conclude; imagine, suppose; regard as; ponder over; reconsider; invent.
  3. kanga(e): thought; idea; opinion; intention; discretion; consideration; deliberation; resolution, plan; expectation; imagination.

Character Index Numbers:

New Nelson: 4697
Henshall: 117

Unicode Encoded Version:

考

Unicode Encoded Compound Examples:

考え方 (kanga(e)kata): way of thinking; point of view; solution.
考古学 (koukogaku): archeology

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