堊

堊

See also: 垩 and 聖

堊 U+580A, 堊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-580A ← 堉 [U+5809] CJK Unified Ideographs 堋 → [U+580B]

Translingual

Han character

堊 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一一土 (MMG), four-corner 1010₄, composition ⿱亞土)

1. white earth
2. to daub with white mud

References

• KangXi: page 232, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5215
• Dae Jaweon: page 469, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 449, character 6
• Unihan data for U+580A

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Chinese

trad.		堊
simp.		垩*

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (亞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
椏	*qaːʔ, *qraː
錏	*qraː
鵶	*qraː
啞	*qraːʔ, *qraːɡs, *qraːɡ, *qraːɡ
瘂	*qraːʔ
亞	*qraːɡs
婭	*qraːɡs
俹	*qraːɡs
稏	*qraːɡs
惡	*qaː, *qaːɡs, *qaːɡ
噁	*qaːɡs
堊	*qaːɡ
蝁	*qaːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): è (e⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ok³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: è
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: è
    • Wade–Giles: o⁴
    • Yale: è
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eh
    • Palladius: э (e)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ok³
    • Yale: ok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: og³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔːk̚³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔɑk̚/

Rime
Character	堊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	唐 (103)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏各切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔak̚/
Li Rong	/ʔɑk̚/
Wang Li	/ɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	e
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ok3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	堊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	è
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔak ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˁak/
English	plaster (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	堊
Reading #	1/1
No.	14221
Phonetic component	亞
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	惡
Old Chinese	/*qaːɡ/

Definitions

堊

1. chalk; white clay
2. to whitewash; to plaster with white clay

Compounds

堊室／垩室 堊帚／垩帚 堊慢／垩慢

白堊／白垩 (bái'è) 白堊系／白垩系 白堊紀／白垩纪 (Bái'è Jì)

黃堊／黄垩 黝堊／黝垩

References

• “堊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學／香港中文大学 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

堊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. white earth, plaster

Readings

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• Go-on: あく (aku)
• Kan-on: あく (aku)
• Kan’yō-on: あ (a)
• Kun: いろつち (irotsuchi, 堊); しらつち (shiratsuchi, 堊); しろつち (shirotsuchi, 堊)

Compounds

• 丹堊(たんあく) (tan'aku)
• 白(はく)堊(あ) (hakua, “chalk”)

Usage notes

May be substituted with 亜 with a similar on-reading of a, as in 白亜 (hakua).

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Korean

Hanja

堊 • (ak) (hangeul 악, revised ak, McCune–Reischauer ak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

堊: Hán Nôm readings: ác

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