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See also:
U+84A6, 蒦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84A6

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Alternative forms

Han character

(Kangxi radical 140, +10, 14 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 13 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿人土水 (TOGE), four-corner 44407, composition )

Usage notes

In Unicode charts and the historical Kangxi dictionary, this character contains the grass radical () and is listed under it.

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1049, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31582
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1510, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3265, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+84A6

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (owl) + (hand) – to catch. Compare .

Pronunciation 1



BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huò
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwɛk ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-qʷˁrak/
English catch, get

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.

Definitions

  1. to catch; to capture (a bird)
    See also:
  2. to measure; to calculate
    alt. forms:

Pronunciation 2


Definitions

  1. type of plant

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. to measure
  2. to calculate

Readings

  • On (unclassified): わく (waku)かく (kaku)きゃく (kyaku)やく (yaku)

Korean

Hanja

(hwak) (hangeul , revised hwak, McCune–Reischauer hwak)

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