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U+9769, 革
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9769

CJK Unified Ideographs
U+2FB0, ⾰
KANGXI RADICAL LEATHER

Kangxi Radicals

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(Kangxi radical 177, +0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿中十 (TLJ), four-corner 44506, composition 廿)

  1. Kangxi radical #177, .

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1385, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42710
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1899, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4325, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9769

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𠦶

𩎎

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a stretched animal hide: the upper is head, the bottom is the tail and legs. The hands around the hide were briefly added later.

Compare (), which also features a hide.

Etymology 1

Appears to be related to (OC *kʰroːɡ, “shell, husk”); see there for more (STEDT).

Pronunciation


Note: gaap3 - variant.
Note:
  • 4kaq - colloquial;
  • 4keq - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /kɤ³⁵/
Harbin /kɤ²¹³/
Tianjin /kɤ⁴⁵/
Jinan /kə²¹³/
Qingdao /kə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /kɤ²⁴/
Xi'an /kei²¹/
Xining /kɨ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ka¹³/
/kə¹³/
Lanzhou /kə¹³/
Ürümqi /kɤ²¹³/
/kei⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kɤ²¹³/
Chengdu /ke³¹/
Guiyang /kɛ²¹/
Kunming /kə³¹/
Nanjing /kəʔ⁵/
Hefei /kɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /kaʔ²/
Pingyao /kʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /kaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /kəʔ⁵/
Suzhou /kəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /kɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /ka²¹³/
Hui Shexian /kʰɛʔ²¹/
Tunxi /ka⁵/
Xiang Changsha /kə²⁴/
Xiangtan /kæ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /kiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ket̚¹/
Taoyuan /ket̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kap̚³/
Nanning /kak̚³³/
Hong Kong /kak̚³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /kik̚³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kaiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /kek̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /kek̚⁵/
/kɔk̚⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (119)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter keak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠɛk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚæk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɐk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kəɨjk̚/
Li
Rong
/kɛk̚/
Wang
Li
/kæk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kæk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ge
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gak1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kɛk › ‹ kɛk ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˁrək/ /*kˁrək/
English hide, skin change (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
Reading # 1/1
No. 3835
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*krɯːɡ/

Definitions

  1. leather; animal hide
  2. (historical) leather armour and weaponry
  3. (historical) ornament on the front of the cart
  4. Alternative form of (headstall)
  5. to change; to alter; to reform
  6. to remove; to expel
      ―  zhí  ―  to dismiss; to remove from office
    [Cantonese]  ―  gaak3 ce2   ―  to fire; to dismiss; to remove from office
    偷提物件出去 [Hokkien, trad.]
    偷提物件出去 [Hokkien, simp.]
    I thau-the̍h chhiúⁿ lāi ê mi̍h-kiāⁿ, hō͘ chhiúⁿ ê kā i kek chhut-khì. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    He stole things inside the factory, making the factory fire him.
  7. 49th hexagram of the I Ching
  8. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. Alternative form of (terminally ill; critical)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. leather; animal hide; pelt
  2. become serious
  3. change; alter

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
かわ
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Specialization of (かわ) (kawa, skin).

Pronunciation

Noun

(かわ) (kawaかは (kafa)?

  1. leather
    (かわ)(ひょう)()
    kawa no hyōshi
    leather book cover

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

(hyeok, geuk) (hangeul , , revised hyeok, geuk, McCune–Reischauer hyŏk, kŭk, Yale hyek, kuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: cách

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