硴

硴 U+7874, 硴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7874 ← 硳 [U+7873] CJK Unified Ideographs 硵 → [U+7875]

Translingual

Han character

硴 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一口廿人心 (MRTOP), composition ⿰石花)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 832, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 4, page 2432, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7874

Chinese

simp. and trad.		硴

Glyph origin

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 硴.

Etymology

Spelling pronunciation, as 花 (huā).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huā (hua¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huā
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hua
    • Wade–Giles: hua¹
    • Yale: hwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hua
    • Palladius: хуа (xua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faa¹
    • Yale: fā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faː⁵⁵/

Definitions

硴

1. Only used in Japanese proper nouns.

Japanese

Glyph origin

A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”), combining the radical for 石 (“stone”) with the character for 花 (“flower”).

Kanji

硴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. oyster

Readings

• Kun: かき (kaki, 硴)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
硴
かき Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 硴 – see the following entry.

【牡蠣かき】 [noun] oyster (edible) Alternative spellings 蠣, 牡蛎, 蛎, カキ

(This term, 硴, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)