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惑

惑

See also: 感

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

惑 (radical 61 心+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈一心 (IMP), four-corner 53330, composition ⿱或心)

  1. confuse, mislead, baffle
  2. doubt

References

  • KangXi: page 390, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10789
  • Dae Jaweon: page 725, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2309, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+60D1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 惑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (或) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
幗 *kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
慖 *kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
簂 *kʷɯːɡs
蔮 *kʷɯːɡs
國 *kʷɯːɡ
或 *ɡʷɯːɡ
惑 *ɡʷɯːɡ
蜮 *ɡʷɯːɡ, *ɢʷrɯɡ
閾 *qʰʷrɯɡ
緎 *qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
淢 *qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
域 *ɢʷrɯɡ
罭 *ɢʷrɯɡ
棫 *ɡʷrɯɡ
琙 *ɡʷrɯɡ
魊 *ɡʷrɯɡ
馘 *kʷrɯːɡ
聝 *kʷrɯːɡ
膕 *kʷrɯːɡ
摑 *kʷrɯːɡ
漍 *kʷrɯːɡ
嘓 *kʷrɯːɡ
蟈 *kʷrɯːɡ
掝 *qʰʷrɯːɡ
彧 *qʷrɯɡ
稶 *qʷɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷɯːɡ) : phonetic 或 ‎(OC *ɡʷɯːɡ) + semantic 心 ‎(“heart”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 惑
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 德 (132)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 胡國切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦwək̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷək̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuək̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwək̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuək̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɣuək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣwək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huó
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 惑
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huò
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwok ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷˤək/
English deceive

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 惑
Reading # 1/1
No. 5549
Phonetic
component		 或
Rime
group		 職
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 或
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷɯːɡ/

Definitions

惑

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References

Japanese

Kanji

惑

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. beguile

Readings

Korean

Hanja

惑 • ‎(hok) (hangeul 혹, revised hok, McCune-Reischauer hok, Yale hok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

惑 (hoặc)

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