核

核 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木卜女人 (DYVO), four-corner 4098₂, composition ⿰木亥)

• 𫈺

• 覈 (Variant form in mainland China)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 524, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14743
• Dae Jaweon: page 912, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1206, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6838

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡuːd, *ɡrɯːɡ) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 亥 (OC *ɡɯːʔ) – a kind of tree. Modern meanings are borrowed.

The definitions related to “to examine” come from the “kernel” sense, i.e. “to go to the core” (Schuessler, 2007).

Generally thought to be of Sino-Tibetan origin. It has been compared to Tibetan རག་ཙེ (rag tse), Karbi rak (Gong, 2002; Schuessler, 2007). However, Hill (2012) rejects the connection to the Tibetan word because most words ending with ཙེ (tse) are loanwords from Chinese words ending with the 子 suffix.

Smith (2011) groups this word with the following terms into a word family meaning “root, germ, generative core”:

• 荄 (OC *kɯː, “grassroot”) and its derivative 根 (OC *kɯːn, “root”),
• 骸 (OC *ɡrɯː, “(human) bones”) (also noted by Schuessler, 2007),
• 孩 (OC *ɡɯː, “child”),
• 亥 (OC *ɡɯːʔ, “sprouting stage”), i.e. "the moon’s first appearance" > "twelfth earthly branch".

核

1. seed; pit; stone; kernel; core; nut (Classifier: 粒 c)

   𦧲核 [Cantonese]  ―  loe¹ wat⁶   ―  to spit out seeds

2. (computing) -core

   See also: 核心

   4核  ―  4-hé  ―  quad-core

3. (physics, chemistry, biology) nucleus
4. (physics) nuclear
5. (mathematics, algebra, linear algebra) kernel
6. (Hokkien) swelling in the lymph glands (lymphatic hard lumps due to inflammation, etc.)
7. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) small formed lump
8. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) Classifier for fruits with a pit inside.

• (seed): (Sichuan) 核核兒／核核儿

核

1. to examine; to check; to verify
2. rigorous; detailed; reliable

• In mainland China, 覈 (hé) is considered a variant form (異體字／异体字) of 核 that is simplified to 核.

核

1. a kind of tree
2. Alternative form of 荄 (gāi)

核

1. eaves of a house

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01911
• “核”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: ぎゃく (gyaku)
• Kan-on: かく (kaku, Jōyō)
• Kun: さね (sane, 核)

From Middle Chinese 核 (MC heak).

• (Tokyo) かく (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• (Tokyo) かく (Odaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

核(かく) • (kaku) 

1. atomic nucleus
2. (algebra) kernel
3. (astronomy) core, nucleus
4. cell nucleus

• (atomic nucleus): 原(げん)子(し)核(かく) (genshikaku)
• (cell nucleus): 細(さい)胞(ぼう)核(かく) (saibōkaku)

核 • (haek, hol) (hangeul 핵, 홀, revised haek, hol, McCune–Reischauer haek, hol, Yale hayk, hol)

1. (atomic) nucleus

核: Hán Nôm readings: hạch

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