惑

See also: 感

惑 U+60D1, 惑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-60D1 ← 惐 [U+60D0] CJK Unified Ideographs 惒 → [U+60D2]

Translingual

Han character

惑 (radical 61, 心+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈一心 (IMP), four-corner 5333₀, composition ⿱或心)

References

• KangXi: page 390, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10789
• Dae Jaweon: page 725, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2309, character 9
• Unihan data for U+60D1

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		惑

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
幗	*kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
慖	*kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
簂	*kʷɯːɡs
蔮	*kʷɯːɡs
國	*kʷɯːɡ
或	*ɡʷɯːɡ
惑	*ɡʷɯːɡ
蜮	*ɡʷɯːɡ, *ɢʷrɯɡ
閾	*qʰʷrɯɡ
緎	*qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
淢	*qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
域	*ɢʷrɯɡ
罭	*ɢʷrɯɡ
棫	*ɡʷrɯɡ
琙	*ɡʷrɯɡ
魊	*ɡʷrɯɡ
馘	*kʷrɯːɡ
聝	*kʷrɯːɡ
膕	*kʷrɯːɡ
摑	*kʷrɯːɡ
漍	*kʷrɯːɡ
嘓	*kʷrɯːɡ
蟈	*kʷrɯːɡ
掝	*qʰʷrɯːɡ
彧	*qʷrɯɡ
稶	*qʷɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷɯːɡ): phonetic 或 (OC *ɡʷɯːɡ) + semantic 心 (“heart”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huò (huo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waak⁶
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): hia̍k / he̍k

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hog⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: huò
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade–Giles: huo4
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huoh
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huò
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xwɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: waak⁶
    • Yale: waahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waak⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wag⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wäːk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: hia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiak̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: he̍k
    • Tâi-lô: hi̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hek
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /hiɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɪk̚¹²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hog⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ho̍k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hok̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦwək̚/

Rime
Character	惑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	德 (132)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡國切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwək̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷək̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuək̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwək̚/
Li Rong	/ɣuək̚/
Wang Li	/ɣuək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huó

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷˤək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷɯːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	惑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huò
Middle Chinese	‹ hwok ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷˁək/
English	deceive
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	惑
Reading #	1/1
No.	5549
Phonetic component	或
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	或
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷɯːɡ/

Definitions

惑

1. confused; puzzled
2. to confuse; to delude

Compounds

• 不惑 (bùhuò)
• 了然不惑
• 二惑
• 二缶鐘惑／二缶钟惑
• 困惑 (kùnhuò)
• 大惑
• 大惑不解 (dàhuòbùjiě)
• 妖術惑眾／妖术惑众
• 妖言惑眾／妖言惑众
• 媚惑
• 年屆不惑／年届不惑
• 心旌搖惑／心旌摇惑
• 惑世盜名／惑世盗名
• 惑亂／惑乱 (huòluàn)
• 惑志 (huòzhì)
• 惑星 (huòxīng)
• 惑溺

• 惑眾／惑众
• 惑突
• 惑術／惑术
• 惶惑 (huánghuò)
• 投杼之惑
• 智者不惑
• 構詞惑眾／构词惑众
• 欺世惑俗
• 流言惑眾／流言惑众
• 淆惑
• 炫惑
• 煽惑 (shānhuò)
• 熒惑／荧惑 (Yínghuò)
• 狐惑 (húhuò)
• 疑惑 (yíhuò)
• 眩惑
• 知者不惑

• 聽讒惑亂／听谗惑乱
• 蠱惑／蛊惑 (gǔhuò)
• 蠱惑人心／蛊惑人心
• 解惑 (jiěhuò)
• 訛言惑眾／讹言惑众
• 誘惑／诱惑 (yòuhuò)
• 誘惑力／诱惑力 (yòuhuòlì)
• 誘惑色／诱惑色
• 謠言惑眾／谣言惑众
• 辨惑
• 迷惑 (míhuò)
• 迷惑不解
• 迷迷惑惑
• 造言惑眾／造言惑众
• 造謠惑眾／造谣惑众
• 魅惑 (mèihuò)
• 鼓惑 (gǔhuò)

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

惑

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. beguile

Readings

• Go-on: わく (waku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: こく (koku)
• Kun: まどう (madou, 惑う, Jōyō)^{←まどふ (madofu, historical)}

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Korean

Hanja

惑 • (hok) (hangeul 혹, revised hok, McCune–Reischauer hok, Yale hok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

惑 (hoặc)

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