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革

革

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #177, ⾰ ‎(“leather”).

Related characters

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 1385, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42710
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1899, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4325, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9769

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 革

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 革
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (革) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
革 *krɯːɡ
諽 *krɯːɡ, *kʰrɯːɡ
緙 *kʰrɯːɡ
鞂 *kriːd

Pictogram (象形) – a stretched animal hide: the upper is head, the bottom is the tail and legs.

Compare 皮, which also features a hide.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 革
Mandarin Beijing /kɤ³⁵/
Harbin /kɤ²¹³/
Tianjin /kɤ⁴⁵/
Jinan /kə²¹³/
Qingdao /kə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /kɤ²⁴/
Xi'an /kei²¹/
Xining /kɨ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ka¹³/
/kə¹³/
Lanzhou /kə¹³/
Ürümqi /kɤ²¹³/
/kei⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kɤ²¹³/
Chengdu /ke³¹/
Guiyang /kɛ²¹/
Kunming /kə³¹/
Nanjing /kəʔ⁵/
Hefei /kɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /kaʔ²/
Pingyao /kʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /kaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /kəʔ⁵/
Suzhou /kəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /kɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /ka²¹³/
Hui Shexian /kʰɛʔ²¹/
Tunxi /ka⁵/
Xiang Changsha /kə²⁴/
Xiangtan /kæ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /kiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ket̚¹/
Taoyuan /ket̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kap̚³/
Nanning /kak̚³³/
Hong Kong /kak̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kik̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kaiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kek̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kek̚⁵/
/kɔk̚⁵/
Rime
Character 革
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 麥 (119)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古核切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚæk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɐk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəɨjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /kɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /kæk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kæk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ge
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 革 革
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gé gé
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kɛk › ‹ kɛk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤrək/ /*kˤrək/
English hide, skin change (v.)

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 革
Reading # 1/1
No. 3835
Phonetic
component		 革
Rime
group		 職
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 隔
Old
Chinese		 /*krɯːɡ/

Definitions

革

  1. leather; animal hide
  2. (historical) leather armour and weaponry
  3. (historical) ornament on the front of the cart
  4. †Alternative form of 勒 (lè, “headstall”).
  5. 49th hexagram of the I Ching
  6. to change; to alter; to reform
  7. to remove; to expel
  8. A surname​.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

革

  1. †Alternative form of 亟 (jí, “terminally ill; critical”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

革

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. leather
  2. become serious
  3. skin
  4. hide
  5. pelt

Readings

Compounds

  • 革正
  • 革弊

Korean

Hanja

革 • ‎(hyeok, geuk) (hangeul 혁, 극, revised hyeok, geuk, McCune-Reischauer hyŏk, kŭk, Yale hyek, ****)

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Vietnamese

Han character

革 (cách, rắc)

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