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核

核

See also: 覈

Translingual

Han character

核 (radical 75 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木卜女人 (DYVO), four-corner 40982, composition ⿰木亥)

References

  • KangXi: page 524, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14743
  • Dae Jaweon: page 912, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1206, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6838

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 核

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (亥) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
該 *kɯː
垓 *kɯː
賅 *kɯː
陔 *kɯː
豥 *kɯː, *ɡɯː
荄 *kɯː, *krɯː
郂 *kɯː
姟 *kɯː
絯 *kɯː, *ɡrɯːʔ
晐 *kɯː
峐 *kɯː
侅 *kɯː, *kʰɯː, *ɡɯːʔ, *ɡrɯːʔ
胲 *kɯː
頦 *kɯːʔ, *ɡɯː
奒 *kʰɯː
輆 *kʰɯːʔ
欬 *kʰɯːɡs, *qraːds
硋 *ŋɡɯːɡs
閡 *ŋɡɯːɡs
咳 *qʰɯː, *ɡɯː
孩 *ɡɯː
亥 *ɡɯːʔ
劾 *ɡɯːɡs, *kʰrɯːɡs, *ɡɯːɡ
痎 *krɯː
烗 *kʰrɯːɡs
骸 *ɡrɯː
駭 *ɡrɯːʔ
刻 *kʰɯːɡ
餩 *qɯːɡ
核 *ɡuːd, *ɡrɯːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡuːd, *ɡrɯːɡ) : semantic 木 ‎(“tree”) + phonetic 亥 ‎(OC *ɡɯːʔ) – the seeds or nuts of a tree. By extension, the kernel or core generally.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 核
Mandarin Beijing /xɤ³⁵/
Harbin /xɤ²⁴/
Tianjin /xɤ⁴⁵/ ～算
/xu⁴⁵/ 棗～兒
Jinan /xə⁴²/
Qingdao /xɛ⁴²/ ～心
/xuə⁴²/ ～桃
Zhengzhou /xai⁴²/
Xi'an /xai²¹/ ～算
/xu²⁴/ 桃～儿
Xining /xɛ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /xa¹³/ ～算
/xɛ¹³/ ～算
/xə¹³/ ～算
/xɯ¹³/ ～桃
Lanzhou /xə⁵³/
/xu⁵³/
Ürümqi /xɤ⁵¹/
/xu⁵¹/
Wuhan /xɤ²¹³/
Chengdu /xe³¹/
Guiyang /xɛ²¹/
Kunming /xə³¹/
Nanjing /xəʔ⁵/
Hefei /xɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /xəʔ²/ ～算
/kəʔ⁵⁴/ ～桃
Pingyao /kʌʔ⁵³/ ～桃
/kʰʌʔ¹³/ 審～
Hohhot /xaʔ⁴³/ ～算
/xu³¹/ 棗～子
Wu Shanghai /ɦəʔ¹/
Suzhou /ŋəʔ³/
Hangzhou /ɦɑʔ²/
Wenzhou /jy²¹³/
Hui Shexian /xɛʔ²¹/ ～對
/xɛ²²/ 山～桃
Tunxi /xə¹¹/
/uən²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /xə²⁴/
Xiangtan /hæ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /hɛʔ²/
Hakka Meixian /hak̚⁵/
Taoyuan /het̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɐt̚²/ ～對
/wɐt̚²/ 桃～
Nanning /wɐt̚²²/
Hong Kong /hɐt̚²/ ～對
/wɐt̚²/ 桃～
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hik̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /houʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xo⁴⁴/ 名
/xɛ²⁴/ 動
Shantou (Min Nan) /hek̚²/
/huk̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hut̚⁵/
Rime
Character 核
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 麥 (119)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 下革切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠɛk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦᵚæk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣɐk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦəɨjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɣɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɣæk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣæk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 hé
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 核
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hé
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hɛk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˤ<r>ək/
English kernel fruit; scrutinize

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 核 核
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4334 4843
Phonetic
component		 骨 亥
Rime
group		 物 職
Rime
subdivision		 2 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 搰 覈
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡuːd/ /*ɡrɯːɡ/
Notes 𣝗字訓讀

Definitions

核

  1. seed; kernel; core; nut
  2. (physics, chemistry, biology) nucleus
  3. (physics) nuclear
  4. to check; to verify

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

核

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
核
かく
Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

核 ‎(hiragana かく, romaji kaku)

  1. atomic nucleus
  2. (algebra) kernel
  3. (astronomy) core, nucleus
  4. cell nucleus

Synonyms

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

核 • ‎(haek, hol) (hangeul 핵, 홀, revised haek, hol, McCune-Reischauer haek, hol, Yale hayk, hol)

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Vietnamese

Han character

核 (hạch, cây, cơi, hột)

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