Chinese Character Wiki

割

gē

cut

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 害 represents the sound.

Components
刂 meaning component

刂  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

害 sound component

害  Sound component

hài

  

injure

Evolution

割 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
割 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
割 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
割 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
割 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

割  

gē

cut, divide, partition; cede; to cut; to cut apart

Most common words with 割
Freq.
Word
Meaning

割

to cut

分割

to cut up

切割

to cut

收割

to harvest

割断

to cut off

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə-kˤat

kat

gē

cut (v.); harm (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.8807% of movies

1682nd most common character in movies

1665th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+5272

Shuowen

“割，剝也。从刀，害聲。”


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