亥

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – an animal; similar origin to 豕 and 犭.

Han character

亥 (radical 8 亠+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 卜女竹人 (YVHO), four-corner 0080₂)

1. the ordinal number twelve, as used in the Chinese calendar and in Chinese units of measure
2. twelfth of twelve earth branches (十二支): pig (猪) of Chinese zodiac

Related characters

• 豕 犭

See also

• 玄

References

• KangXi: page 88, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 292
• Dae Jaweon: page 186, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 283, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4EA5

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Cantonese

Hanzi

亥 (Yale hoi6)

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Japanese

Kanji

亥

Readings

• On: がい (gai), かい (kai)
• Kun: い (i), ゐ (wi, outdated)

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Korean

Hanja

亥 (hangeul 해, revised hae, McCune-Reischauer hae)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

亥 (pinyin hài (hai4), Wade-Giles hai⁴)