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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手十金弓 (QJCN), four-corner 53017, composition)

  1. dig, dig out, gouge out, scoop

References

  • KangXi: page 431, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12070
  • Dae Jaweon: page 780, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1875, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+6316

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qreːd
*sqriːd
*sqriːd
*ʔsriːd
*ʔsriːd
*qriːd
*qriːd
*qriːd, *qʷriːd
*qʷriːd
*qriːd, *qrid
*ŋrid, *teb
*qriɡ
*qrɯɡ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ua⁵⁵/
Harbin /ua⁴⁴/
Tianjin /vɑ²¹/
Jinan /va²¹³/
Qingdao /va²¹³/ ~洞
/va⁵⁵/ ~飯
Zhengzhou /ua²⁴/
Xi'an /ua²¹/
Xining /ua⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /va⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /va¹³/
Ürümqi /va⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ua⁵⁵/ ~苦
/ua²¹³/ ~土
Chengdu /ua⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ua⁵⁵/
Kunming /ua̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /uɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /uɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /vaʔ²/
Pingyao /uɑ¹³/
Hohhot /va³¹/
Wu Shanghai /uaʔ⁵/
Suzhou /uaʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔuɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /o²¹³/
Hui Shexian /uaʔ²¹/
Tunxi /uːə⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ua²⁴/
Xiangtan /uɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /uaʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /va⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /vet̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wat̚³/
Nanning /wɛt̚³³/
/wat̚³³/
Hong Kong /wat̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /uat̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ua⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /uai³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /uak̚⁵/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 14918
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʷriːd/
Notes

Verb

  1. to dig

Compounds

  • 挖潛挖潜
  • 挖牆腳挖墙脚 (wāqiángjiǎo)
  • 挖空心思
  • 挖耳
  • 挖肉補瘡挖肉补疮
  • 挖苦 (wākǔ)
  • 挖補挖补
  • 挖角
  • 挖角兒挖角儿
  • 挖通

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Vietnamese

Han character

(oạt)

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