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U+518E, 冎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-518E

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Alternative forms

  • The top section of the character turns left (◱) in PRC and Singapore, while it turns right (◲) elsewhere.

Han character

(Kangxi radical 13, +4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 月弓月 (BNB), composition ⿱⿵𠃍(G) or 𭁟(TJ))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 129, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1525
  • Dae Jaweon: page 290, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 100, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+518E

Chinese

Glyph origin

Pictogram (象形) - a skull. This character is also the pictographic protoform of . See also its variant .

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“to cut flesh off from bone; lingchi; etc.”).
(This character is an ancient form of ).

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. hollow
  2. scoop out

Readings

  • On (unclassified): (ka) (ke)
  • Kun: わける (wakeru)

Korean

Hanja

(eum (gwa))

  1. tear off: pare; rind; shuck; shell; hull; crack; remove; ex) ~ bone a chicken, ~clean a fish