覺

See also: 覚 and 觉

覺 U+89BA, 覺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-89BA ← 覹 [U+89B9] CJK Unified Ideographs 覻 → [U+89BB]

Translingual

Traditional	覺
Shinjitai	覚
Simplified	觉

Han character

覺 (Kangxi radical 147, 見+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 竹月月山山 (HBBUU), four-corner 7721₆, composition ⿱𦥯見)

Derived characters

• 攪(搅) 灚 𦤲 𧅫 𧢱 𪱔 𪴤 𬑬

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1137, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34973
• Dae Jaweon: page 1604, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3675, character 8
• Unihan data for U+89BA

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Chinese

trad.		覺
simp.		觉
alternative forms		覚／觉 斍 𡕚 覐 𧠔 覚／觉 斍 𡕚 覐 𧠔 𧠭 𧠷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 覺
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
攪	*kruːʔ
覺	*kruːɡs, *kruːɡ
澩	*ɡruːʔ, *sɡruːɡ, *ɡruːɡ
斆	*ɡruːɡs
鱟	*ɡoːɡs, *quːɡ
嶨	*kʰruːɡ, *ɡruːɡ
礐	*kʰruːɡ, *ɡ·rɯːɡ, *ɡoːɡ, *ɡuːɡ
觷	*ŋɡruːɡ, *ɡruːɡ, *quːɡ
學	*ɡruːɡ
鷽	*ɡruːɡ, *qruːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kruːɡs, *kruːɡ) : abbreviated phonetic 學 (OC *ɡruːɡ) + semantic 見 (“see”).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kruk (“rouse; awaken; disturb”). Cognate with 學 (OC *ɡruːɡ, “to learn; to study”), 攪 (OC *kruːʔ, “to disturb”), Tibetan དཀྲོག (dkrog, “to agitate; to rouse”).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 覺

1. ^† to wake up from sleep

   • 雲鬢半偏新睡覺，花冠不整下堂來。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     云鬓半偏新睡觉，花冠不整下堂来。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 806 CE, Bai Juyi, Song of Everlasting Regret

     Yúnbìn bàn piān xīn shuì jué, Huāguān bù zhěng xià táng lái. [Pinyin]

     Cloudlike hair awry, she just woke up from sleep. / Crown of flowers unadjusted, she then walked out of her room.

2. to become aware; to dawn on; to awaken to

   覺醒／觉醒  ―  juéxǐng  ―  to come to realize

   大覺／大觉  ―  dàjué  ―  great awakening

3. to feel; to think

   覺得／觉得  ―  juéde  ―  to feel that; to think that

4. sense; sensation; feeling
5. a surname

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 覺

1. ^† to wake up from sleep
2. sleep; nap
3. Classifier for periods of sleep.
4. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 較／较 (jiào).

References

• “覺”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03774

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Japanese

Shinjitai	覚
Kyūjitai	覺

Kanji

覺

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 覚)

1. to wake up from sleep
2. conscious
3. to enlighten
4. awake
5. to remember
6. remembrance

Readings

• Go-on: かく (kaku)、きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}
• Kan-on: かく (kaku)、こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: かく (kaku)
• Kun: おぼえる (oboeru, 覺える)、さます (samasu, 覺ます)、さめる (sameru, 覺める)、さとる (satoru, 覺る)

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Korean

Hanja

覺 (eumhun 깨달을 각 (kkaedareul gak))

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覺 (eumhun 깰 교 (kkael gyo))

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Vietnamese

Han character

覺: Hán Nôm readings: giác, nhác, rác, dác

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Derived terms

• 不覺 (bất giác)
• 告覺 (cáo giác)
• 味覺 (vị giác)
• 嗅覺 (khứu giác)
• 幻覺 (ảo giác)
• 感覺 (cảm giác)
• 發覺 (phát giác)
• 直覺 (trực giác)
• 知覺 (tri giác)
• 聽覺 (thính giác)
• 自覺 (tự giác)
• 視覺 (thị giác)
• 覺悟 (giác ngộ)
• 覺書 (giác thư)
• 覺關 (giác quan)
• 觸覺 (xúc giác)
• 訴覺 (tố giác)