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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿人土水 (TOGE), composition)

  1. to measure
  2. to calculate

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1049, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31582
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1510, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3265, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+84A6

See also


Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (grass) +  (hand).

While graphically  + , this is not the etymology.

Pronunciation



Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huò
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwɛk ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-qʷˤrak/
English catch, get

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(hwak) (hangeul , revised hwak, McCune-Reischauer hwak)

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