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覈

hé

investigate

Phonosemantic compound. 襾 represents the meaning and 敫 represents the sound.

Components
襾 meaning component

襾  Meaning component

yà

  

cover

敫 sound component

敫  Sound component

jiǎo

  

shining light

Evolution

覈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
覈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
覈 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
覈 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
覈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

覈  

hé

investigate, consider, examine

核 (覈) 

hé

variant of 核[hé]; to investigate

Most common words with 覈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

核心

core

核

pit

核弹

nuclear warhead

考核

to examine

核武器

nuclear weapon

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤr[ə]k (or *[g]ˤrewk?)

heak

hé

kernel


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 18.4206% of movies

1301st most common character in movies

828th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Unicode

U+8988

Shuowen

“覈，實也，考事襾笮，邀遮其辤，得實曰覈。从襾，敫聲。”


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