冎

See also: 叧

冎 U+518E, 冎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-518E ← 再 [U+518D] CJK Unified Ideographs 冏 → [U+518F]

Translingual

Alternative forms

• The top section of the character turns left (◱) in PRC and Singapore, while it turns right (◲) elsewhere.

Han character

冎 (Kangxi radical 13, 冂+4, 6 strokes, Cangjie input 月弓月 (BNB), composition ⿱⿵冂𠃍冂(G) or ⿱𭁟冂(TJ))

Derived characters

• 咼, 𠈥, 𨒵, 𨀩, 𠛰, 𠕩, 𬟬

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 129, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1525
• Dae Jaweon: page 290, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 100, character 5
• Unihan data for U+518E

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 冎
Shang		Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (冎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
碢	*l'oːl
腡	*ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl
過	*kloːl, *kloːls
渦	*kloːl, *qloːl
鍋	*kloːl
楇	*kloːl, *ɡloːls
瘑	*kloːl
緺	*koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝	*kloːl
濄	*kloːl, *qloːl
鐹	*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
薖	*kʰloːl
簻	*kʰloːl, *kr'oːl
禍	*ɡloːlʔ
窩	*qloːl
萵	*qloːl
檛	*kr'oːl
膼	*kr'oːl
蝸	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
媧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
騧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
冎	*kroːlʔ
剮	*kroːlʔ
諣	*qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls
歄	*kʷroːl
咼	*kʰʷroːl
喎	*kʰʷroːl

Pictogram (象形): bones. Original form of 骨 (OC *kuːd).

It also appears as the top component of 咼, which has a distinguishing 口 added. See also its variant 另 and the top component of the simplified character 呙 (< 咼).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 冎 – see 剮 (“to cut flesh off from bone; lingchi; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 剮).

Japanese

Kanji

冎

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to hollow
2. to scoop out

Readings

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: か (ka)
• Kun: わける (wakeru)

Korean

Hanja

冎 (eum 과 (gwa))

1. to tear off, to peel off, to strip off, to split off, to take off, to pare
2. to rind, to shuck, to shell, to hull
3. to crack
4. to remove
5. to bone (a chicken, a fish, etc.)