括

Translingual

Han character

括 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手竹十口 (QHJR), four-corner 5206₄, composition ⿰扌舌)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 427, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11988
• Dae Jaweon: page 776, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1870, character 1
• Unihan data for U+62EC

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		括

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
咶	*qʰroːds, *qʰroːds, *ɡroːd
話	*ɡroːds
刮	*kroːd
鴰	*kroːd, *koːd
趏	*kroːd, *kʰroːd
舌	*ɡroːd, *ɦbljed
姡	*ɡroːd, *ɡoːd
頢	*ɡroːd, *koːd
括	*koːd
活	*koːd, *ɡoːd
适	*koːd, *kʰoːd
栝	*koːd, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
佸	*koːd, *ɡoːd
髺	*koːd
聒	*koːd
銛	*koːd, *slem, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
葀	*koːd
懖	*koːd
筈	*koːd, *kʰoːd
萿	*koːd
蛞	*kʰoːd
闊	*kʰoːd
秳	*ɡoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *koːd) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 𠯑 (OC *ɡroːd).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 括

1. ^† to tie; to tie up; to tie together
2. ^† to seek; to search for
3. to embrace; to enclose
4. to include; to encompass
5. to enclose in brackets
6. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

括

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. fasten, tie up, arrest, constrict (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Readings

• Go-on: かち (kachi)
• Kan-on: かつ (katsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: くくる (kukuru, 括る); くくり (kukuri)

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Korean

Hanja

括 • (gwal) (hangeul 괄, revised gwal, McCune–Reischauer kwal, Yale kwal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 括 (quát, khoát, quất, quét)

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