血

See also 皿

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): 一 + 皿 (“container”)

Looks like blood in a container (chalice) in sacrifice.

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

血 (radical 143 血+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹月廿 (HBT), four-corner 2710₀, composition ⿱丿皿)

1. blood

Descendants

• Index:Chinese radical/血

References

• KangXi: page 1107, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33964
• Dae Jaweon: page 1568, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3050, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8840

---

Cantonese

Hanzi

血 (Yale hyut3)

---

Hakka

Hanzi

血 (POJ hiet, Guangdong hiet⁷; het⁷ [Bao'an, Dongguan, Hong Kong], Hagfa Pinyim hiad5, hed5)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

---

Japanese

Noun

血 (hiragana ち, romaji chi)

1. blood

Kanji

血 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: けつ (ketsu)
• Kun: ち (chi)

Compounds

• 血圧
• 血液
• 血縁
• 血管
• 血色
• 輸血
• 出血

---

Korean

Hanja

血 (hangeul 혈, revised hyeol, McCune-Reischauer hyŏl, Yale hyel)

---

Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
血

Hanzi

血 (pinyin xiě (xie3), xuè (xue4), xuě (xue3), Wade-Giles hsieh³, hsüeh⁴, hsüeh³)

Noun

血 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin xuě, xiě or xuè)

1. blood

Compounds

• 血壓 / 血压
• 血案
• 血管
• 混血
• 血光之灾
• 血庫 / 血库
• 血汗
• 血脈 / 血脉
• 血脈流通
• 血栓症
• 血色素
• 血液
• 血型

---

Middle Chinese

Han character

血 (*xuet)

---

Vietnamese

Han character

血 (huyết, hoét, tiết)