翮

翮 U+7FEE, 翮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FEE ← 翭 [U+7FED] CJK Unified Ideographs 翯 → [U+7FEF]

Translingual

Han character

翮 (radical 124, 羽+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一月尸一一 (MBSMM), four-corner 1722₀, composition ⿰鬲羽)

References

• KangXi: page 958, character 39
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28776
• Dae Jaweon: page 1404, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3354, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7FEE

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		翮

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (鬲) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
隔	*kreːɡ
膈	*kreːɡ
搹	*kreːɡ
鬲	*kreːɡ, *ɡ·reːɡ
槅	*kreːɡ
嗝	*kreːɡ
虉	*ŋɡreːɡ, *ŋɡeːɡ
翮	*ɡreːɡ
滆	*ɡreːɡ
蒚	*ɡreːɡ, *ɡ·reːɡ
鎘	*ɡ·reːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡreːɡ): phonetic 鬲 (OC *kreːɡ, *ɡ·reːɡ) + semantic 羽 (“feather; wing”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hé, gé (he², ge²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ, ㄍㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hat⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: hé
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
    • Wade–Giles: ho²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hé
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: gé
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˊ
    • Wade–Giles: ko²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ger
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gé
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hat⁶
    • Yale: haht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hed⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦˠɛk̚/▼

Rime
Character	翮
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡreːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	翮
Reading #	1/1
No.	3847
Phonetic component	鬲
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	覈
Old Chinese	/*ɡreːɡ/

Definitions

翮

1. (literary) quill (of a feather)
2. (literary) wing (of a bird)
3. (literary) bird
4. (literary) wind instrument

Synonyms

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Japanese

Kanji

翮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. stem of feather
2. quill

Readings

• On (unclassified): かく (kaku); ぎゃく (gyaku); れき (reki); りゃく (ryaku)

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Korean

Hanja

翮 • (haek) (hangeul 핵, revised haek, McCune–Reischauer haek, Yale hayk)

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