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U+9769, 革
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9769

[U+9768]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+976A]
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U+2FB0, ⾰
KANGXI RADICAL LEATHER

[U+2FAF]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2FB1]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 177, +0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿中十 (TLJ), four-corner 44506, composition 廿)

  1. Kangxi radical #177, .

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1385, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42710
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1899, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4325, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9769
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 革, Shang ...

Pictogram (象形) – a stretched animal hide: the upper is head, the bottom is the tail and legs. The hands around the hide were briefly added later.

Compare (), which also features a hide.

Etymology 1

Appears to be related to (OC *kʰroːɡ, “shell, husk”); see there for more (STEDT).

Pronunciation


Note: gaap3 - variant.
Note:
  • 4kaq - colloquial;
  • 4keq - literary.

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. leather; animal hide
  2. (historical) leather armour and weaponry
  3. (historical) ornament on the front of the cart
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (headstall)
  5. to change; to alter; to reform
  6. to remove; to expel
       zhí   to dismiss; to remove from office
    [Cantonese]   gaak3 ce2 [Jyutping]   to fire; to dismiss; to remove from office
    偷提物件出去 [Hokkien, trad.]
    偷提物件出去 [Hokkien, simp.]
    I thau-the̍h chhiúⁿ lāi ê mi̍h-kiāⁿ, hō͘ chhiúⁿ ê kā i kek chhut-khì. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    He stole things inside the factory, making the factory fire him.
  7. 49th hexagram of the I Ching
  8. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (terminally ill; critical)

Compounds

  • 病革

References

  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 267.
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