# 覈

| 覈 | U+8988, &#35208; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8988 |
| ← 覇 [U+8987] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 覉 → [U+8989] |

## Translingual
### Alternative forms

* In modern Chinese scripts, the top component is written 覀.
* In Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, the top component is written 襾, which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.

### Han character

覈 (Kangxi radical 146, 襾+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 一田竹尸大 (MWHSK), four-corner 1024$_8$, composition ⿱覀敫(GHT) or ⿱襾敫(JK))

#### Derived characters

* 𥽶, 𦇸

#### Related characters

* 核 (Orthodox form in mainland China)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1129, character 11
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34791
* Dae Jaweon: page 1599, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2808, character 12
* Unihan data for U+8988

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 礉 | *kʰreːw, *kʰreːwɢs |
| 邀 | *qlew, *kleːw |
| 憿 | *kleːw |
| 徼 | *kleːw, *kleːwɢs |
| 儌 | *kleːwʔ, *kleːwʔ |
| 璬 | *kleːwʔ |
| 皦 | *kleːwʔ |
| 繳 | *kleːwʔ, *kljewɢ, *ɡreːɡ |
| 敫 | *kleːwɢs, *ɢlewɢ, *kleːwɢ |
| 譥 | *kleːwɢs |
| 激 | *kleːwɢs, *kleːwɢ |
| 噭 | *kleːwɢs |
| 獥 | *kleːwɢs, *kleːwɢ, *ɡleːwɢ |
| 鸄 | *kleːwɢs, *kleːwɢ, *ɡleːwɢ |
| 墽 | *kʰleːw |
| 竅 | *kʰleːwɢs |
| 覈 | *ɡleːd, *ɡreːɡ |
| 燩 | *kʰreːwɢ, *kʰleːwɢ |
| 檄 | *ɡleːwɢ |
| 薂 | *ɡleːwɢ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): hé (he$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hat$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: hé
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: hé
*** Wade–Giles: ho$^2$
*** Yale: hé
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
*** Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
*** Sinological IPA : /xɤ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hat$^6$
*** Yale: haht
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hat$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hed$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɐt̚²/
* Middle Chinese: het, heak
Rime :
| Character | 覈 | 覈 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 屑 (87) | 麥 (119) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | IV | II |
| Fanqie | 胡結切 | 下革切 |
| Baxter | het | heak |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɦet̚/ | /ɦˠɛk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɦet̚/ | /ɦᵚæk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɣɛt̚/ | /ɣɐk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɦɛt̚/ | /ɦəɨjk̚/ |
| Li Rong | /ɣet̚/ | /ɣɛk̚/ |
| Wang Li | /ɣiet̚/ | /ɣæk̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ɣiet̚/ | /ɣæk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xié | hé |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jit$^6$ | hak$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤr[ə]k/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡleːd/, /*ɡreːɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 覈 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | hé |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ hɛk › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ɡ]ˁr[ə]k/ (or *[ɡ]ˁrewk?) |
| English | kernel |
| 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 | 覈 | 覈 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 6400 | 6404 |
| Phonetic component | 敫 | 敫 |
| Rime group | 月 | 錫 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 纈 | 覈 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡleːd/ | /*ɡreːɡ/ |

### Definitions

覈
* (alt. form 核) to examine; to check; to verify
* (alt. form 核) rigorous; detailed; reliable
* (archaic) vivid
* (alt. form 麧／𱋇) leftover husk after pounding grains

#### Compounds

* 審覈／审覈 (shěnhé)
* 峭覈
* 校覈
* 檢覈／检覈
* 研覈
* 稽覈 (jīhé)
* 精覈
* 糠覈
* 練覈／练覈
* 考覈 (kǎohé)
* 肴覈
* 覈實／覈实 (héshí)
* 覈對／覈对
* 覈查
* 覈物
* 辨覈

### Usage notes

This character is considered a variant form (異體字／异体字) of 核 (hé) in mainland China but not Taiwan.

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04587
* “覈”, 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–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* to investigate; to examine

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): かく (kaku)、ぎゃく (gyaku)
* Kun: しらべる (shiraberu)、きびしい (kibishī)、さね (sane)

## Korean
### Hanja

覈 • (haek) (hangeul 핵, revised haek, McCune–Reischauer haek, Yale hayk)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

覈: Hán Nôm readings: hạch
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### References

* Nom Foundation