貨

See also 货

Translingual

simpl.		货
trad.		貨

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 化 + semantic 貝 (“shell, money”) – valuable goods. 化 means “change”, so also connotation of “valuable goods that are exchanged, commodities”.

Han character

貨 (radical 154 貝+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人心月山金 (OPBUC), four-corner 2480₆, composition ⿱化貝)

1. goods, commodities, products

Descendants

• 货

See also

• 賃

References

• KangXi: page 1205, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36678
• Dae Jaweon: page 1667, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3627, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8CA8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

貨 (simplified 货, Yale fo3)

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Japanese

Kanji

貨 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: か (ka)
• Kun: たから (takara)

Compounds

• 硬貨 (こうか, kōka, “coins”)
• 貨幣 (かへい, kahei, “currency”)

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Korean

Hanja

貨 (hangeul 화, revised hwa, McCune-Reischauer hwa, Yale hwa)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

貨 (simplified 货, pinyin huò (huo4), Wade-Giles huo⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

貨 (hóa, hoá)