漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
核: nucleus, core
Also: kernel
JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · 亥 gives the sound
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
カクkaku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 核かくstone (of a fruit); pit; pip
- 中核ちゅうかくkernel; core; nucleus
- 結核けっかくtuberculosis; TB
- 核心かくしんcore; heart (of the matter); point
- 核酸かくさんnucleic acid
- 核兵器かくへいき
- 核実験かくじっけんnuclear (bomb) test
- 核燃料かくねんりょうnuclear fuel
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)木 tree (meaning) + 亥 (sound)
A kind of tree. Modern meanings are borrowed.
Source: Wiktionary, 核 (rev. 93647867), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亥
Also built on sign of the hog (亥)
The 亥 family reads ガイ (gai); 核 is read カク.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side核 nucleus · 木
vs刻 engrave · 刂In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · hé
Same form: 核 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 核 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 核 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin hé most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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