堝

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 咼

Han character

堝 (radical 32 土+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土月月口 (GBBR), four-corner 4712₇)

1. crucible

References

• KangXi: page 233, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5247
• Dae Jaweon: page 470, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 454, character 1
• Unihan data for U+581D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

堝 (simplified 埚, Yale wo1)

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Japanese

Kanji

堝

Readings

• On: か (ka)
• Kun: るつぼ (rutsubo)

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Korean

Hanja

堝 (hangeul 과, revised gwa, McCune-Reischauer kwa)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

堝 (simplified 埚, pinyin guō (guo1), Wade-Giles kuo¹)

Last modified on 18 August 2012, at 11:52