勺

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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Etymology [edit]

Pictogram (象形): something (丶) in the spoon (勹).

Han character [edit]

勺 (radical 20 勹+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 心戈 (PI), X心戈 (XPI), four-corner 27320)

  1. spoon, ladle
  2. unit of volume

Derived characters [edit]

References [edit]

  • KangXi: page 150, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2495
  • Dae Jaweon: page 339, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 254, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+52FA

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

勺 (Yale cheuk3, jeuk3)

Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

勺 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)[1]

Readings [edit]

Usage notes [edit]

  1. ^ Removed from the daily use Jōyō kanji by the Japanese government in 2010.
    The Japan Times (October 21, 2009). Get set for next year's overhaul of joyo kanji. Accessed February 23, 2010.

Noun [edit]

勺 (hiragana しゃく, romaji shaku)

  1. 18 millimeters (a tenth of a go)
  2. 0.033 square meters (a hundredth of a tsubo)

Alternative forms [edit]

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

勺 (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune-Reischauer chak)

Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

勺 (pinyin sháo (shao2), Wade-Giles shao2), shuò, zhuó, dì

Middle Chinese [edit]

Han character [edit]

勺 (ʒ́ak)

Min Nan [edit]

Han character [edit]

勺 (chiok)

Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

勺 (chước, giuộc, thược, duộc)

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