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Translingual

Han character

(radical 154 +4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人心月山金 (OPBUC), four-corner 24806, composition)

Descendants

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 1205, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36678
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1667, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3627, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8CA8

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ŋʷaːl
*ŋʷaːl
*ŋʷaːl
*lu, *ŋʷaːl
*ŋʷaːl
*hʷa
*hŋʷaːls
*hʷraː
*hŋʷraːls
*hŋʷraːls
*pilʔ, *hŋʷraːls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hŋʷaːls) : phonetic  (OC *hŋʷraːls) + semantic  (shell, money) – valuable goods.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (95)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/huɑH/
Pan
Wuyun
/huɑH/
Shao
Rongfen
/xuɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hwaH/
Li
Rong
/xuɑH/
Wang
Li
/xuɑH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xuɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huò
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 5325
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hŋʷaːls/

Definitions

  1. goods; commodities; products

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. currency
  2. goods

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(hwa) (hangeul , revised hwa, McCune-Reischauer hwa, Yale hwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hoá)

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