灋

See also: 法

灋 U+704B, 灋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-704B ← 灊 [U+704A] CJK Unified Ideographs 灌 → [U+704C]

Translingual

Han character

灋 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+18, 21 strokes, cangjie input 水戈火戈 (EIFI), composition ⿰氵⿸廌去)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 662, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18757
• Dae Jaweon: page 1071, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1793, character 11
• Unihan data for U+704B

Chinese

灋

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 灋
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
法	*pqab
灋	*pqab

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 氵 (“water”) + 廌 (“mythical creature that can distinguish right from wrong”) + 去.

Alternatively, may be a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pqab) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + semantic 廌 (“mythical creature that can distinguish right from wrong”) + abbreviated phonetic 盍 (OC *ɡaːb).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 灋 – see 法 (“law; rule; regulation; statute; norm; standard; model; example; etc.”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as an ancient form of 法).

References

• “灋”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

灋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ほう (hō); はっ (ha'); ほっ (ho')
• Kun: のり (nori)