告

音読おんよみ: コク

訓読くんよみ:げる

画数かくすう: 7 strokes

部首ぶしゅ: 口(くち)

Meaning

Announce / Inform / Report / Tell

  • 報告ほうこく — report
  • 警告けいこく — warning
  • 広告こうこく — advertisement
  • 告白こくはく — confession
  • 予告よこく — notice / preview
  • 忠告ちゅうこく — advice

告 combines 口 (mouth) and 牛 (cow), originally symbolizing a cow being branded — a way of informing ownership. It later came to mean “to inform” or “announce” something publicly or clearly.

先生せんせい欠席けっせき報告ほうこくしました。
I reported my absence to the teacher.

かれ彼女かのじょあい告白こくはくした。
He confessed his love to her.

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報告ほうこく — report
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