液

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 夜 – a liquid, like water.

Han character

液 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水卜人大 (EYOK), four-corner 3014₇)

1. sap, juice, liquid, fluid

References

• KangXi: page 628, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17586
• Dae Jaweon: page 1029, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1658, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6DB2

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Cantonese

Hanzi

液 (Yale yik6)

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Japanese

Kanji

液 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: えき (eki)
• Kun: しる (shiru)

Compounds

• 液化
• 液汁
• 液晶
• 液状
• 液体
• 血液
• 血液型
• 精液

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Korean

Hanja

液 (hangeul 액, revised aek, McCune-Reischauer aek, Yale ayk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

液 (pinyin yè (ye4), Wade-Giles yeh⁴)

1. sap, juice, liquid, fluid

Compounds

液化 液晶 液态 液体 液压机 鼻窦炎口服液 柴胡口服液 化积口服液 藿香正气口服液 益母草口服液 血康口服液 清开灵口服液 清热解毒口服液

双黄连口服液 舒心口服液 小儿清热止咳口服液 小儿热速清口服液 心通口服液 银黄口服液 玉屏凤口服液 珍视明滴眼液 口喘灵注射液 止咳橘红口服液 止嗽定喘口服液 滋心阴口服液

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Vietnamese

Han character

液 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水卜人大 (EYOK), four-corner 3014₇) (dịch, giá)

1. sap, juice, liquid, fluid