血

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Noun 3.2 Kanji 3.2.1 Readings 3.2.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Pictogram (象形): 一 + 皿 (“‘container’”)

Looks like blood in a container in sacrifice.

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

[edit] Han character

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

1. blood

[edit] Descendants

• Index:Chinese radical/血

[edit] 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

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

血 (Yale hyut3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

血 (hiragana ち, romaji chi)

1. blood

[edit] Kanji

血 (grade 3 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: けつ (ketsu)
• Kun: ち (chi)

[edit] Compounds

• 血圧
• 血液
• 血縁
• 血管
• 血色
• 輸血
• 出血

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

1. blood

[edit] 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

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

血 (huyết, hoét, tiết)