確

See also 确

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 石 + phonetic 寉 – rock-solid, as certain as a rock.

Han character

確 (radical 112 石+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一口人月土 (MROBG), four-corner 1461₄)

1. sure, certain
2. real, true

References

• KangXi: page 833, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24366
• Dae Jaweon: page 1250, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2450, character 4
• Unihan data for U+78BA

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Cantonese

Hanzi

確 (simplified 确, Yale kok3)

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Japanese

Kanji

確 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: かく (kaku)
• Kun: たしか (tashika), かたい (katai), たしかめる (tashikameru)

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Korean

Hanja

確 (hangeul 확, revised hwak, McCune-Reischauer hwak, Yale hwak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

確 (simplified 确, pinyin què (que4), Wade-Giles ch'üeh⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

確 (xác, xạc)