货

Translingual

simpl.		货
trad.		貨

Etymology

Simplified from 貨 (貝 → 贝).

In current form, Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 化 + semantic 贝 (“shell, money”) – valuable goods. 化 means “change”, so also connotation of “valuable goods that are exchanged, commodities”.

Han character

货 (radical 154 贝+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人心月人 (OPBO))

1. goods, commodities, products

See also

• 赁

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1213, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3627, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8D27

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Cantonese

Hanzi

货 (traditional 貨, Yale fo3)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

货 (traditional 貨, pinyin huò (huo4), Wade-Giles huo⁴)

Compounds

• 货币

Last modified on 19 August 2012, at 03:00