覈

See also: 核

Translingual

Alternative forms

• In modern Chinese scripts, the top component is written 覀.
• In Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, the top component is written 襾, which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.

Han character

覈 (Kangxi radical 146, 襾+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 一田竹尸大 (MWHSK), four-corner 1024₈, composition ⿱覀敫(GHT) or ⿱襾敫(JK))

Derived characters

• 𥽶, 𦇸

Related characters

• 核 (Orthodox form in mainland China)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1129, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34791
• Dae Jaweon: page 1599, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2808, character 12
• Unihan data for U+8988

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Chinese

trad.		覈
simp.		核*
alternative forms		𩅢

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
礉	*kʰreːw, *kʰreːwɢs
邀	*qlew, *kleːw
憿	*kleːw
徼	*kleːw, *kleːwɢs
儌	*kleːwʔ, *kleːwʔ
璬	*kleːwʔ
皦	*kleːwʔ
繳	*kleːwʔ, *kljewɢ, *ɡreːɡ
敫	*kleːwɢs, *ɢlewɢ, *kleːwɢ
譥	*kleːwɢs
激	*kleːwɢs, *kleːwɢ
噭	*kleːwɢs
獥	*kleːwɢs, *kleːwɢ, *ɡleːwɢ
鸄	*kleːwɢs, *kleːwɢ, *ɡleːwɢ
墽	*kʰleːw
竅	*kʰleːwɢs
覈	*ɡleːd, *ɡreːɡ
燩	*kʰreːwɢ, *kʰleːwɢ
檄	*ɡleːwɢ
薂	*ɡleːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hé (he²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hat⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hé
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hé
    • Wade–Giles: ho²
    • Yale: hé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
    • Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hat⁶
    • Yale: haht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hed⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: het, heak

Rime
Character	覈	覈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	屑 (87)	麥 (119)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	II
Fanqie	胡結切	下革切
Baxter	het	heak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦet̚/	/ɦˠɛk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦet̚/	/ɦᵚæk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɛt̚/	/ɣɐk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦɛt̚/	/ɦəɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/ɣet̚/	/ɣɛk̚/
Wang Li	/ɣiet̚/	/ɣæk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣiet̚/	/ɣæk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xié	hé
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jit6	hak6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤr[ə]k/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡleːd/, /*ɡreːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	覈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hé
Middle Chinese	‹ hɛk ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁr[ə]k/ (or *[ɡ]ˁrewk?)
English	kernel
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	覈	覈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6400	6404
Phonetic component	敫	敫
Rime group	月	錫
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	纈	覈
Old Chinese	/*ɡleːd/	/*ɡreːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 覈

1. (alt. form 核) to examine; to check; to verify
2. (alt. form 核) rigorous; detailed; reliable
3. (archaic) vivid
4. leftover husk after pounding grains

Usage notes

This character is considered a variant form (異體字／异体字) of 核 (hé) in mainland China but not Taiwan.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04587
• “覈”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

覈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): かく (kaku), ぎゃく (gyaku)
• Kun: しらべる (shiraberu), きびしい (kibishii), さね (sane)

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Korean

Hanja

覈 • (haek) (hangeul 핵, revised haek, McCune–Reischauer haek, Yale hayk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 覈 (hạch)

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References

• Nom Foundation