劃

See also 划

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 畫 + semantic 刀 (“knife”)

Han character

劃 (radical 18 刀+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中一中弓 (LMLN), four-corner 5210₀)

1. divide, mark off, lay boundary

References

• KangXi: page 144, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2193
• Dae Jaweon: page 325, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 356, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5283

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Cantonese

Hanzi

劃 (simplified 划, Yale waak6)

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Japanese

Kanji

劃

Readings

• On: かく (kaku)
• Kun: わかつ (wakatsu)

Compounds

• 劃然
• 劃期的
• 企劃
• 区劃

Noun

劃 (hiragana かく, romaji kaku)

1. Alternative form of 画.

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Korean

Hanja

劃 (hangeul 획, revised hoek, McCune-Reischauer hoek)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

劃 (simplified 划, pinyin huà (hua4), Wade-Giles hua⁴)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

劃 (huɛk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

劃 (hoạch, vạch, đạch, gạch, hoa)