殼

See also 壳

Translingual

shinjitai	殻
simplified	壳
traditional	殼

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): a hand with a weapon-like object (殳) - presumably a mallet - preparing to strike a hanging percussion instrument (壳).

Han character

殼 (radical 79 殳+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土弓竹弓水 (GNHNE), four-corner 4724₇)

1. casing, shell, husk, hull, skin

Descendants

• 殻 壳

References

• KangXi: page 586, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16646
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2160, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6BBC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

殼 (simplified 壳, Yale hok3)

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Japanese

Kanji

殼

Readings

• On: かく (kaku), こく (koku)
• Kun: から (kara)

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Korean

Hanja

殼 (hangeul 각, revised gak, McCune-Reischauer kak, Yale kak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

殼 (simplified 壳, pinyin ké (ke2), qiào (qiao4), Wade-Giles k'o², ch'iao⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

殼 (xác)