Kanji Detail for 狗 - "dog, base"

狗

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning

狗 means "dog, base."
1. Dog - A canine; a puppy.
2. Base - A metaphor for something lowly.
Four-character idioms with 狗
- 狡兎良狗こうとりょうく When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off
- 羊頭狗肉ようとうくにく crying wine and selling vinegar; deceptive advertisement
- 鶏鳴狗盗けいめいくとう person who resorts to petty tricks; person of small caliber who is only capable of petty tricks
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

puppy; dog

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

dog, Canis familiaris

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

dog; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

dog

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

A domestic animal that can guard at night.
Onyomi

koh(コウ)

ku(ク)
Kunyomi

inu(いぬ)
Strokes

9 strokes
Radical

犬犭 (inu・kemonohen)
Related Keywords

dog base puppy lowly

天狗になるなよ。
Don't be overconfident.
トムは天狗のようだ。
Tom seems conceited.
トムは天狗になっていた。
Tom was full of himself.
トムは天狗になっている。
Tom is conceited.
トムは天狗になったようだった。
Tom seemed conceited.
俺だったら天狗になっちゃうよ。
I would have gotten conceited.
大会で優勝したからって天狗になるな。お前と同じくらいに上手いやつなんて、世の中にはごろごろいるんだぞ。
Don't get such a big head just because you won the tournament. There's many others in the world who are just as good as you.