Translingual

Han character

乹 (radical 5 乙+8, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十十山 (JJU) or X十十山 (XJJU), four-corner 4241₀, composition ⿰𠦝乚)

1. (archaic variant of 乾) first of the 8 trigrams
2. warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male)
3. first hexagram of the I Ching

References

• KangXi: page 84, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 194
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 56, character 1
• Unihan data for U+4E79
• yedict.com (叶典)

Chinese

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: かん (kan), けん (ken)
• Kun: かわく (kawaku), かわかす (kawakasu)