See also:
U+84A6, 蒦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84A6

[U+84A5]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+84A7]

Translingual

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Alternative forms

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 140, +10, 14 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 13 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿人土水 (TOGE), four-corner 44407, composition )

Usage notes

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In Unicode charts and the historical Kangxi dictionary, this character contains the grass radical () and is listed under it.

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1049, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31582
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1510, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3265, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+84A6

Chinese

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simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
 

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): (owl) + (hand) – to catch. Compare .

Pronunciation 1

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BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huò
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwɛk ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-qʷˁrak/
English catch, get

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.

Definitions

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  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to catch; to capture (a bird)
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  2. (historical dictionaries only) to measure; to calculate
    alt. forms:  /

Pronunciation 2

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Definitions

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  1. (historical dictionaries only) type of plant

Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. to measure
  2. to calculate

Readings

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  • On (unclassified): わく (waku)かく (kaku)きゃく (kyaku)やく (yaku)
  • Kun: はかる (hakaru, 蒦る)

Korean

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Hanja

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(hwak) (hangeul , revised hwak, McCune–Reischauer hwak)

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