Translingual

Stroke order

Box on right (Traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji)

Stroke order

Box on left (Simplified Chinese)

Alternative forms

There are two forms of this character (and hence derived ones): with the square in the lower left of the upper box, or with the square in the lower right of the upper box, as in the images at right.

Han character

冎 (radical 13 冂+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 月弓月 (BNB))

1. dismember
2. bone
3. get cut, kill
4. old term for 剮

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• 咼, 骨, 肎, 𠛰, 𠕩

References

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

Chinese

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. hollow
2. scoop out

Readings

• On: か (ka), け (ke)
• Kun: わける (wakeru)

Korean

Hanja

冎 • ‎(gwa) (hangeul 과, revised gwa, McCune-Reischauer kwa)

1. tear [peel, strip, split, take] off: pare; rind; shuck; shell; hull; crack; remove;

ex) ~ bone a chicken, ~clean[bone] a fish