卻

See also 却

Translingual

simpl.		却
trad.		卻

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 谷 + 卩 – person 卩 leaving 八 the house 口 – retreat.

Han character

卻 (radical 26 卩+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 金口尸中 (CRSL), four-corner 8762₀, composition ⿰谷卩)

1. still, but
2. decline
3. retreat

Derived characters

• 腳

References

• KangXi: page 159, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2867
• Dae Jaweon: page 365, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 317, character 2
• Unihan data for U+537B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

卻 (simplified 却, jyutping koek3, Yale keuk3)

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Japanese

Kanji

卻

Readings

• On: きゃく (kyaku)
• Kun: しりぞく (shirizoku), しりぞける (shirizokeru), かえって (kaette)

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Korean

Hanja

卻 (hangeul 각, revised gak, McCune-Reischauer kak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

卻 (simplified 却, pinyin què (que4), Wade-Giles ch'üeh⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

卻 (khước)