血

See also: 皿

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

血 (Kangxi radical 143, 血+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹月廿 (HBT), four-corner 2710₀, composition ⿱丿皿)

1. Kangxi radical #143, ⾎.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/血

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1107, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33964
• Dae Jaweon: page 1568, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3050, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8840

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		血

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 血
Shang	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
侐	*qʰʷiɡs, *qʰʷɯɡ
血	*qʰʷiːɡ
恤	*sqʰʷiɡ
卹	*sqʰʷiɡ
賉	*sqʰʷiɡ
欰	*sqʰʷiɡ
洫	*qʰʷɯɡ
殈	*qʰʷeːɡ

Pictogram (象形) : 一 (“drop of blood”) + 皿 (“container”).

A drop of blood inside a chalice for sacrificial uses.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-hjwəj-t (“blood”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 血

1. blood

   流血了。  ―  Liúxiě le.  ―  It's bleeding.

2. blood relations; kinship
3. firm; unyielding; ardent
4. (literary) tears
5. (video games) HP

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (血):

• → Japanese: 血(けつ) (ketsu)
• → Korean: 혈(血) (hyeol)
• → Vietnamese: huyết (血)

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Japanese

Kanji

血

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: けち (kechi)^{←けち (keti, historical)←くゑち (kweti, ancient)}
• Kan-on: けつ (ketsu, Jōyō)^{←けつ (ketu, historical)←くゑつ (kwetu, ancient)}
• Kun: ち (chi, 血, Jōyō)

Compounds

Compounds

• 血(けつ)圧(あつ) (ketsuatsu)
• 血(けつ)液(えき) (ketsueki)
• 血(けつ)縁(えん) (ketsuen)
• 血管(けっかん) (kekkan)
• 血痕(けっこん) (kekkon)
• 血(けっ)色(しょく) (kesshoku)
• 輸(ゆ)血(けつ) (yuketsu)
• 出(しゅっ)血(けつ) (shukketsu)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
血
ち Grade: 3
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *ti.

Noun

血(ち) • (chi) 

1. blood

Derived terms

• 血(ち)走(ばし)る (chibashiru)
• 血塗(ちぬ)る (chinuru)

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Korean

Hanja

血 (eumhun 피 혈 (pi hyeol))

1. Hanja form^? of 혈 (“blood”).

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Okinawan

Kanji

血 (hiragana ちー, romaji chī)

Etymology

From Proto-Ryukyuan *ti, from Proto-Japonic *ti. Cognate with Japanese 血 (chi).

Noun

血 (hiragana ちー, romaji chī)

1. blood

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 血 (huyết, hoét, tiết)

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