龠

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 亼 (“assemblage”) + 冊 (“of bamboos”) + 品 (“with holes”)

Han character

龠 (radical 214 龠+0, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人一口月 (OMRB), four-corner 8022₇)

1. flute
2. pipe, ancient measure

Descendants

• Index:Chinese radical/龠
• 籥, 鑰, 瀹, 爚, 䟑, 蘥, 龢 (original of 和)

References

• KangXi: page 1538, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48882
• Dae Jaweon: page 2080, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4807, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9FA0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

龠 (jyutping joek6, Yale yeuk6)

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Hakka

Hanzi

龠 (POJ yok, Guangdong jok⁷; zok⁷ [Hailu], Hagfa Pinyim yog5)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• 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

龠

Readings

• On: やく (yaku)
• Kun: ふえ (fue)

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Korean

Hanja

龠 (hangeul 약, revised yak, McCune-Reischauer yak, Yale yak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

龠 (pinyin hè (he4), huò (huo4), yuè (yue4), Wade-Giles ho⁴, huo⁴, yüeh⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

龠 (dược, thược)