核

核 U+6838, 核 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6838 ← 样 [U+6837] CJK Unified Ideographs 根 → [U+6839]

核 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木卜女人 (DYVO), four-corner 4098₂, composition ⿰木亥)

• 𫈺

• 覈 (Variant form in mainland China)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 524, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14743
• Dae Jaweon: page 912, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1206, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6838

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡuːd, *ɡrɯːɡ) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 亥 (OC *ɡɯːʔ) – a kind of tree. Modern meanings are borrowed.

The definitions related to “to examine” come from the “kernel” sense, i.e. “to go to the core” (Schuessler, 2007).

Generally thought to be of Sino-Tibetan origin. It has been compared to Tibetan རག་ཙེ (rag tse), Karbi rak (Gong, 2002; Schuessler, 2007). However, Hill (2012) rejects the connection to the Tibetan word because most words ending with ཙེ (tse) are loanwords from Chinese words ending with the 子 suffix.

Smith (2011) groups this word with the following terms into a word family meaning “root, germ, generative core”:

• 荄 (OC *kɯː, “grassroot”) and its derivative 根 (OC *kɯːn, “root”),
• 骸 (OC *ɡrɯː, “(human) bones”) (also noted by Schuessler, 2007),
• 孩 (OC *ɡɯː, “child”),
• 亥 (OC *ɡɯːʔ, “sprouting stage”), i.e. "the moon’s first appearance" > "twelfth earthly branch".

simp. and trad.		核
alternative forms		𣝗

核

1. seed; pit; stone; kernel; core; nut (Classifier: 粒 c)

   𦧲核 [Cantonese]  ―  loe¹ wat⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  to spit out seeds

2. (computing) -core

   See also: 核心

   4核  ―  4-hé  ―  quad-core

3. (physics, chemistry, biology) nucleus
4. (physics) nuclear
5. (mathematics, algebra, linear algebra) kernel
6. (Hokkien) swelling in the lymph glands (lymphatic hard lumps due to inflammation, etc.)
7. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) small formed lump
8. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) Classifier for fruits with a pit inside.

• (seed): (Sichuan) 核核兒／核核儿

simp. and trad.		核
alternative forms		覈

核

1. to examine; to check; to verify
2. rigorous; detailed; reliable

• In mainland China, 覈 (hé) is considered a variant form (異體字／异体字) of 核 that is simplified to 核.

simp. and trad.		核

核

1. a kind of tree
2. Alternative form of 荄 (gāi)

simp. and trad.		核

核

1. eaves of a house

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01911
• “核”, 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–

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: ぎゃく (gyaku)
• Kan-on: かく (kaku, Jōyō)
• Kun: さね (sane, 核)

Kanji in this term
核
かく Grade: S
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 核 (MC heak).

• (Tokyo) かく [káꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• (Tokyo) かく [kàkúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠kɯ̟]

核(かく) • (kaku) 

1. atomic nucleus
2. (algebra) kernel
3. (astronomy) core, nucleus
4. cell nucleus

• (atomic nucleus): 原(げん)子(し)核(かく) (genshikaku)
• (cell nucleus): 細(さい)胞(ぼう)核(かく) (saibōkaku)

Kanji in this term
核
さね Grade: S
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 核 – see the following entry.

【実さね】3 [noun] seed; stone; pit [noun] (archaic) core; root; essence [noun] (architecture) tongue (projecting part on a board meant to fit into a groove on another board, as in tongue and groove) [noun] (anatomy) clitoris [proper noun] a surname

(This term, 核, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

核 • (haek, hol) (hangeul 핵, 홀, revised haek, hol, McCune–Reischauer haek, hol, Yale hayk, hol)

1. (atomic) nucleus

核: Hán Nôm readings: hạch

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