殼

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See also: 壳, and 殻
殼 U+6BBC, 殼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BBC
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 殽 →

Translingual

Traditional 殼
Shinjitai 殻
Simplified 壳

Han character

殼 (Kangxi radical 79, 殳+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土弓竹弓水 (GNHNE), four-corner 47247, composition ⿰壳殳 or ⿰⿱⿳士冖一几殳)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 586, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16646
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2160, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6BBC

Chinese

trad. 殼
simp. 壳*
alternative forms 殻
㱿
愨／悫
Wikipedia has articles on:
  • 殼 (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • 殼 (Cantonese)

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (殻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
彀 *koːɡs
鷇 *kʰoːɡs
瞉 *kʰoːɡs
豰 *pɢroːɡ, *qʰoːɡ
瑴 *kroːɡ, *koːɡ
愨 *kʰroːɡ
殼 *kʰroːɡ
觳 *kʰroːɡ, *ɡoːɡ
嗀 *qʰroːɡ, *qʰoːɡ
穀 *kloːɡ
糓 *kloːɡ
轂 *kloːɡ
榖 *kloːɡ
瀔 *koːɡ
縠 *ɡloːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰroːɡ) : semantic 几 + phonetic 𣪊 (). Originally written as 㱿 (què), see there for more.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-kawk ~ *s/r-kwak (“outer covering, skin, bark, rind”). Cognate with 革 (OC *krɯːɡ, “leather”), Burmese ခေါက် (hkauk, “tree bark”), Tibetan སྐོག་པ་ (skog pa, “shell, peel”) (STEDT, Hill (2019)).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • ké - colloquial;
  • qiào - literary;
  • ​què - literary (rare in Mainland).
Note: khak - vernacular (“shell”), khok - literary.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 殼
Mandarin Beijing /kʰɤ³⁵/
/t͡ɕʰiɑu⁵¹/
Harbin /kʰɤ²⁴/
/t͡ɕʰiau⁵³/
Tianjin /kʰɤ⁴⁵/
/t͡ɕʰiɑu⁵³/
Jinan /kʰə²¹³/
Qingdao /kʰə⁵⁵/
/t͡ɕʰyə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /kʰɤ²⁴/
Xi'an /kʰɤ²¹/
Xining /kʰu⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kʰə¹³/
Lanzhou /kʰə⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /kʰɤ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kʰuo²¹³/
Chengdu /kʰo³¹/
Guiyang /kʰo²¹/
Kunming /kʰo³¹/
Nanjing /kʰoʔ⁵/
Hefei /kʰɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /kʰaʔ²/
Pingyao
Hohhot /kʰaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /kʰoʔ⁵/
Suzhou /kʰoʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /kʰoʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /kʰo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /kʰɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi /kʰo⁵/
Xiang Changsha /kʰo²⁴/
Xiangtan /kʰo²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /kʰɔʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /hok̚¹/
Taoyuan /hok̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɔk̚³/
Nanning /hɔk̚³³/
Hong Kong /hɔk̚³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /kʰak̚³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kʰɔyʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kʰu²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /kʰak̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /xak̚⁵/
Rime
Character 殼
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 覺 (10)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 苦角切
Baxter khaewk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰˠʌk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰᵚɔk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰɔk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰaɨwk̚/
Li
Rong 		/kʰɔk̚/
Wang
Li 		/kʰɔk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kʰɔk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		que
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hok3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 殼
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		què
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khæwk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁrok/
English hollow shell, hollow

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 殼
Reading # 1/1
No. 7419
Phonetic
component 		殻
Rime
group 		屋
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		㱿
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰroːɡ/
Notes 右下原作一，此後起通用字，
見論衡

Definitions

殼

  1. shell; husk; hull; skin; casing
    貝殼／贝壳  ―  bèiké  ―  shell; conch
    蛋殼／蛋壳  ―  dànké  ―  eggshell
    地殼／地壳  ―  dìqiào (Mainland), dìké (Taiwan)  ―  the Earth's crust
  2. (Cantonese) ladle
    飯殼／饭壳 [Cantonese]  ―  faan6 hok3   ―  rice scoop
    一殼眼淚／一壳眼泪 [Cantonese]  ―  jat1 hok3 ngaan5 leoi6   ―  grief (literally, “a ladle of tears”)

Compounds

  • (shell):
  • (ladle):

Japanese

Shinjitai

殻

Kyūjitai

殼

Kanji

殼

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 殻)

  1. husk; shell

Readings

  • Go-on: こく (koku)
  • Kan-on: かく (kaku)
  • Kun: から (kara, 殼)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 殼 (MC khaewk).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

殼 (eumhun 껍질 각 (kkeopjil gak))

  1. hanja form? of 각 (“shell; husk; hull; skin; casing”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

殼: Hán Nôm readings: xác, nôi

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