獲

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See also: 获
獲 U+7372, 獲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7372
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Translingual

Alternative forms

Han character

獲 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+14, 17 strokes in traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 16 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 大竹廿人水 (KHTOE), four-corner 44247, composition ⿰犭蒦)

Derived characters

Related characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 720, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20758
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1132, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1370, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+7372

Chinese

trad. 獲
simp. 获*
alternative forms 𫉬

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (蒦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
檴 *ɢʷraːɡs, *ɢʷaːɡ
鱯 *ɢʷraːɡs, *ɢʷraːɡ
護 *ɢʷraːɡs
頀 *ɢʷraːɡs
濩 *ɢʷraːɡs, *ɢʷaːɡ, *qʷraːɡ
韄 *ɢʷraːɡs
鳠 *ɢʷraːɡs
擭 *ɢʷaːɡs, *ɢʷaːɡ, *qʷraːɡ
瓁 *ŋɢʷaːɡ
劐 *qʰʷaːɡ
穫 *ɢʷaːɡ
鑊 *ɢʷaːɡ
矆 *qʰʷaɡ
鸌 *qʷaːɡ
雘 *qʷaːɡ
蠖 *qʷaːɡ
臒 *qʷaːɡ, *qʷaɡ
嬳 *qʷaːɡ, *qʷaɡ
彠 *qʷaɡ, *qʷraːɡ, *ɢʷraːɡ
嚄 *ɢʷraːɡ
獲 *ɢʷraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷraːɡ) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 犭 + phonetic 蒦 () (the phonetic 蒦 also serves as a semantic element, meaning “to catch”) — according to Kōjien, to hunt and catch animals with a dog.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 獲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 麥 (120)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡麥切
Baxter hweak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦˠwɛk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦʷᵚæk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣuɐk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦwəɨjk̚/
Li
Rong 		/ɣuɛk̚/
Wang
Li 		/ɣwæk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɣwæk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		huó
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wak6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 獲
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		huò
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hwɛk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m-qʷˁrak/
English catch (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 獲
Reading # 1/1
No. 5602
Phonetic
component 		蒦
Rime
group 		鐸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		獲
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢʷraːɡ/

Definitions

獲

  1. to catch
  2. to obtain; to get; to receive; to win
Synonyms
  • (to obtain):

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

獲

  1. Only used in 獲鹿／获鹿. (Old name of 鹿泉 (Lùquán))

References

  1. ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

Japanese

Kanji

獲

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. seize
  2. get
  3. find
  4. earn
  5. acquire
  6. can
  7. may
  8. able to

Readings

Korean

Hanja

獲 • (hoek, hwak) (hangeul 획, 확, revised hoek, hwak, McCune–Reischauer hoek, hwak, Yale hoyk, hwak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

獲: Hán Nôm readings: hoạch, oách

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