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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		鬲

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gé, lì (ge², li⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜˊ, ㄌㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaak³, lik⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kak, li̍t, lit
• Min Nan (POJ): kek / le̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gé
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ko²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ger
    • IPA ^(key): /kɤ³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lì
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: lih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
    • IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaak³, lik⁶
    • Yale: gaak, lihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaak⁸, lik⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɑːk̚³/, /lɪk̚²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kak, li̍t, lit
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kek / le̍k
    • Tâi-lô: kik / li̍k
    • IPA (Taipei): /kɪk̚³²/, /lɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɪk̚³²/, /lɪk̚¹²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (鬲, reconstructed)
Character (鬲), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 麥 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 古核切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɣɛk̚/	/kæk̚/	/kɛk̚/	/kɯæk̚/	/kəɨjk̚/	/kæk̚/	/kɐk̚/
Character (鬲), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 錫 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 郎擊切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/lek̚/	/liek̚/	/lek̚/	/lek̚/	/lɛjk̚/	/liek̚/	/lɛk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (鬲, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
鬲								gé								‹ kɛk ›								/*C.qˤ<r>ik/								yoke
鬲								lì								‹ lek ›								/*k.rˤek/								tripod with hollow legs
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
鬲					3843					鬲					錫					0					隔					/*kreːɡ/
鬲					3851					鬲					錫					0					靂					/*ɡ·reːɡ/

References

• VoiceDic (汉语方言发音字典)

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Japanese

Kanji

鬲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. cauldron
2. tripod

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

鬲 (cách)

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