戶

Stroke order

Note the regionally different forms of this character which are encoded separately in Unicode:

• 戶 (top stroke connects to left stroke, as found in the historical Kangxi dictionary) - used in Taiwan and South Korea.
• 戸 (top stroke is a horizontal line that does not connect to other strokes) - used in Japan.
• 户 (top stroke is a slanting dot) - used in mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

Note also the different stroke order: 户 and 戸 have the leftmost 丿 as the final (fourth) stroke, while 戶 (this character) has 丿 as the second stroke.

 

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Radical 63 戶

戶 (Kangxi radical 63, 戶+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸 (HS), four-corner 3027₇, composition ⿸𠂆コ)

1. Kangxi radical #63, ⼾.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №437

• Appendix:Chinese radical/戶
• 𠯖, 𡉴, 𡵘, 𦙅, 𥄅, 𧦈, 𢻻, 𩢉, 𩿇, 𥫿

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 414, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11696
• Dae Jaweon: page 759, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2257, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6236

Historical forms of the character 戶
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) : one-half of 門 (“gate”). The character in its original form is similar to 𠁣.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening; spread; door; face; jaw”). Cognate with Tibetan སྒོ (sgo, “door”).

戶

1. ^† door

   戶外／户外  ―  hùwài  ―  outdoors

2. ^⁜ family; household

   戶籍／户籍  ―  hùjí  ―  household register

   專業戶／专业户  ―  zhuānyèhù  ―  expert (literally, “family which engages in a specialized trade”)

   釘子戶／钉子户  ―  dìngzǐhù  ―  nail house

3. Classifier for households.
4. (only in compounds) bank account

   賬戶／账户  ―  zhànghù  ―  account

   開戶／开户  ―  kāihù  ―  to open an account

5. a surname

Others:

• → Vietnamese: họ (戶)

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 戸)

1. door

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)、ご (go)
• Kan-on: こ (ko)
• Kun: と (to, 戶)、へ (he, 戶)
• Nanori: え (e)、へ (he)

This character lacks JIS support; 戸 (U+6238) is used instead.

戶 (eumhun 지게문 호 (jigemun ho))

1. house
2. hole

戶: Hán Nôm readings: hộ

1. chữ Hán form of hộ (“household; door”).