鬲

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a 3-legged cauldron.

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

鬲 (radical 193 鬲+0, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一口月中 (MRBL), four-corner 1022₇)

1. type of cauldron with three hollow legs
2. name of a state
3. KangXi radical number 193

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/鬲
• 隔 融

Related characters

• 徹 (earlier forms also had a pot, later replaced with 育)

References

• KangXi: page 1458, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45672
• Dae Jaweon: page 1991, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4587, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9B32

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鬲 (Yale gaak3, lik6)

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Hakka

Hanzi

鬲 (POJ kak, li̍t, lit, Guangdong kak⁷, lit⁸; lit⁸ [Meixian], Hagfa Pinyim gag5, lid6)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary [1], [2]
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

鬲

Readings

• On: れき (reki), かく (kaku)
• Kun: かなえ (kanae)

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Korean

Hanja

鬲 (hangeul 격, revised gyeok, McCune-Reischauer kyŏk, Yale kyek) 鬲 (hangeul 력)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鬲 (pinyin gé (ge2), lì (li4), Wade-Giles ko², li⁴), è

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Vietnamese

Han character

鬲 (cách)