或

See also 咸, 戓, and 玉

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 戈 + 口 + 一.

Note that 咸 is not derived from 或, and that the characters 口一 are stacked in the opposite order in these characters. Both are ultimately from 戈 (“halberd, spear”).

Han character

或 (radical 62 戈+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈口一 (IRM), four-corner 5310₀, composition ⿹戈⿱口一)

1. or, either, else
2. perhaps, maybe

Usage notes

While 或 is both a traditional and simplified character (it was not simplified), it is simplified as a component of the character 國 → 国.

Derived characters

• 國, 惑

References

• KangXi: page 412, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11563
• Dae Jaweon: page 754, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1402, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6216

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Cantonese

Hanzi

或 (Yale waak6)

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Japanese

Kanji

或 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: わく (waku), いき (iki)
• Kun: ある (aru), あるいは (arui wa)

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Korean

Hanja

或 (hangeul 혹, revised hok, McCune-Reischauer hok, Yale hok)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

或 (pinyin huò (huo4), yù (yu4), Wade-Giles huo⁴, yü⁴)

Pronunciation

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Vietnamese

Han character

或 (hoặc, hoắc)