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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Pictogram (象形)

角 角 角 角
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

[edit] Han character

(radical 148 +0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓月土 (NBG), 弓月手 (NBQ), four-corner 27227)

  1. horn
  2. angle, corner
  3. point
  4. third note in the Chinese pentatonic scale or mi

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 1139, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35003
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1606, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3919, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+89D2

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale gok3)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

(grade 2 kanji)

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[edit] Compounds

[edit] Noun

(hiragana かど, romaji kado)

  1. A corner (e.g., of a desk; compare ).
  2. An edge.

[edit] Noun

(hiragana かく, romaji kaku)

  1. An angle.
  2. A bishop (shogi). Abbreviation of 角行.

[edit] Noun

(hiragana つの, romaji tsuno)

  1. A horn.

[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , , revised gak, nok, McCune-Reischauer kak, nok, Yale kak, nok)


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin jiǎo (jiao3), Wade-Giles chiao3)

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

(*gak)


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(giác, góc, dạc, chác, giốc)