索

See also 索

Translingual

Han character

索 (radical 120 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十月女戈火 (JBVIF), four-corner 4090₃, composition ⿳十冖糸)

1. large rope, cable
2. rules, laws
3. to demand, to exact
4. to search, inquire
5. isolated

References

• KangXi: page 918, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27306
• Dae Jaweon: page 1349, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3369, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7D22

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Cantonese

Hanzi

索 (Yale saak3, sok3)

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Japanese

Kanji

索 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: さく (saku)
• Kun: なわ (nawa), もとめる (motomeru)

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Korean

Hanja

索 (hangeul 색, 삭, revised saek, sak, McCune-Reischauer saek, sak, Yale sayk, sak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

索 (pinyin suǒ (suo3), zú (zu2), Wade-Giles so³, tsu²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

索 (tác, sách, xách)