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Translingual

Han character

(radical 203 +15, 27 strokes, cangjie input 田火土田金 (WFGWC), four-corner 64386)

  1. to dishonour / dishonor, defile, corrupt
  2. soiled

References

  • KangXi: page 1522, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48234
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2058, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4757, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9EF7

Chinese

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simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l'oːɡs
*ljoɡs, *ljoɡ
覿 *l'juːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ, *luɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*l'oːɡ
*ljoɡ
*ɦljoɡ
*ɦljoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'oːɡ) : semantic  (black) + phonetic  (OC *mreːs).

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. to tarnish
  2. to be rash about
  3. to corrupt

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(dok) (hangeul , revised dok, McCune-Reischauer tok, Yale tok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(độc)

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