赫

Translingual

Han character

赫 (Kangxi radical 155, 赤+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土金土中金 (GCGLC), four-corner 4433₁, composition ⿰赤赤)

Derived characters

• 嚇, 懗, 𢷓, 㬨, 爀, 𥋿, 𮜜

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1214, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37010
• Dae Jaweon: page 1682, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3508, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8D6B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		赫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 赫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
浾	*sqraː
嚇	*qʰraːɡs, *qʰraːɡ
赦	*hljaɡs
郝	*qʰljaɡ, *kʰljaɡ, *hljaɡ
赫	*qʰraːɡ
爀	*qʰraːɡ
赤	*kʰljaɡ
烾	*kʰljaɡ
螫	*qʰjaːɡ
赥	*qʰleːɡ
捇	*qʰʷreːɡ
焃	*qʰʷreːɡ

Duplication of 赤 (“red”), with 赤 (OC *kʰljaɡ) acting as the phonetic component.

Etymology 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 赫

1. ^† bright red
2. ^† bright; luminous
3. distinguished; eminent; glorious; awe-inspiring
4. ^† to display; to show off
5. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 嚇／吓 (hè, “to frighten”).
6. ^† angrily; furiously
7. (physics) Short for 赫茲／赫兹 (Hèzī, “hertz”).
8. a surname

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): niah

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: niah
    • Tâi-lô: niah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: niaq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /niãʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /niãʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /niãʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /niãʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /niãʔ³²/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 赫

1. (Southern Min) to be frightened

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 赫 – see 遐 (“(Min Nan) so; that”). (This character is a variant form of 遐).

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Japanese

Kanji

赫

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: きゃく (kyaku)
• Kan-on: かく (kaku)
• Kun: あかい (akai, 赫い); かがやく (kagayaku, 赫く)

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Korean

Hanja

赫 • (hyeok) (hangeul 혁, revised hyeok, McCune–Reischauer hyŏk, Yale hyek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 赫 (hách, hích)

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