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, composition ⿰畫刂)

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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Chinese

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trad.		劃
simp.		划

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huà (hua⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waak⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): ue̍h / ui̍h

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huà
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Wade-Giles: hua⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huah
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯a̠⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: waak⁶
    • Yale: waahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waak⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /wɑːk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ue̍h / ui̍h
    • Tâi-lô: ue̍h / ui̍h
    • IPA (Taipei): /ueʔ⁴/, /uiʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ueʔ¹²¹/, /uiʔ¹²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (劃, reconstructed)
Character (劃), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 麥 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 胡麥切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦwɣɛk̚/	/ɣwæk̚/	/ɣuɛk̚/	/ɦʷɯæk̚/	/ɦwəɨjk̚/	/ɣwæk̚/	/ɣuɐk̚/
Character (劃), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 曉 (32) Final: 麥 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 呼麥切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/hwɣɛk̚/	/xwæk̚/	/xuɛk̚/	/hʷɯæk̚/	/hwəɨjk̚/	/xwæk̚/	/xuɐk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (劃, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
劃								huà								‹ hwɛk ›								/*ɡʷˤrek/								draw (v.)
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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
劃					5334					畫					錫					0					剨					/*qʰʷreːɡ/
劃					5337					畫					錫					0					獲					/*ɡʷreːɡ/

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

劃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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 (hoek) (hangeul 획, revised hoek, McCune-Reischauer hoek, Yale hoyk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

劃 (vạch, hoạch, đạch, gạch, hoa)

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