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U+8CA8, 貨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CA8

[U+8CA7]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8CA9]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 154, +4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人心月山金 (OPBUC), four-corner 24806, composition )

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1205, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36678
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1667, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3627, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8CA8

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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Old Chinese
*ŋʷaːl
*ŋʷaːl
*ŋʷaːl
*lu, *ŋʷaːl
*ŋʷaːl
*hʷa
*hŋʷaːls
*hʷraː
*hŋʷraːls
*hŋʷraːls
*pilʔ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hŋʷaːls): phonetic (OC *hŋʷraːls) + semantic (shell, money) – valuable goods.

Etymology

Related to (OC *ŋʷaːl, “to change”), (OC *hŋʷraːls, “to transform”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (95)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter xwaH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/huɑH/
Pan
Wuyun
/huɑH/
Shao
Rongfen
/xuɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hwaH/
Li
Rong
/xuɑH/
Wang
Li
/xuɑH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/xuɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huò
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fo3
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BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huò
Middle
Chinese
‹ xwaH ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʷʰˁaj-s/
English (movable) property, goods

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.
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More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 5325
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hŋʷaːls/
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Note:
  • hè/hèr/hòe - vernacular;
  • hò/hòⁿ - literary.

Definitions

  1. (literary) money and goods; property
    殺人越杀人越   shārényuèhuò   to kill people for their property
  2. goods; commodities; products
       xiànhuò   merchandise in stock
       bǎihuò   general merchandise
    退退   tuìhuò   to return goods or merchandise
    今日 [Cantonese, trad.]
    今日 [Cantonese, simp.]
    gam1 jat6 wui5 jau5 pai1 fo3 sung3 dou3 lai4. [Jyutping]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  3. currency
       tōnghuò   currency
  4. (derogatory) used to refer to a person
       chīhuò   one who eats all day and does nothing
       chǔnhuò   idiot
  5. (Southern Min) thing; stuff
  6. (obsolete) to bribe
  7. (obsolete) to buy; to purchase
  8. (obsolete) to sell
  9. a surname

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: (ka, Jōyō)くわ (kwa, historical)
  • Kan-on: (ka, Jōyō)くわ (kwa, historical)
  • Kun: たから (takara, )

Compounds

Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
on'yomi
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From Middle Chinese (MC xwaH).

Pronunciation

Affix

() (ka) くわ (kwa)?

  1. currency
  2. goods
  3. treasure

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
たから
Grade: 4
kun'yomi
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For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
たから6
[noun] [from 759] treasure
Alternative spellings
,
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

(hwa) (hangeul , revised hwa, McCuneReischauer hwa, Yale hwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: hóa/hoá

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