徹

See also 彻

Translingual

Etymology

彳 + 育 + 攵 – originally a hand 攵 breaking a pot. Pot figure similar to earlier forms of 鬲, replaced/simplified in large seal script to 育 (earlier 㐬) – a child with head down, and hair/lines going down.

Han character

徹 (radical 60 彳+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹人卜月大 (HOYBK), four-corner 2824₀)

1. penetrate, pervade
2. penetrating

Derived characters

• 撤 轍

Related characters

• 微 徵 (徴)

References

• KangXi: page 371, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10245
• Dae Jaweon: page 698, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 844, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5FB9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

徹 (simplified 彻, Yale chit3)

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Japanese

Kanji

徹 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: てつ (tetsu)
• Kun: とおる (tooru)

Proper noun

徹 (hiragana あきら, romaji Akira)

1. A male given name

徹 (hiragana とおる, romaji Tōru)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

徹 (hangeul 철, revised cheol, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏl, Yale chel)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

徹 (simplified 彻, pinyin chè (che4), Wade-Giles ch'e⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

徹 (triệt, trẹt, trê, trệt, trịt, trít, xẹt)