赫

赫

赫 U+8D6B, 赫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D6B ← 赪 [U+8D6A] CJK Unified Ideographs 赬 → [U+8D6C]

Translingual

Han character

赫 (Kangxi radical 155, 赤+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土金土中金 (GCGLC), four-corner 4433₁, composition ⿰赤赤)

Derived characters

• 嚇, 懗, 𢷓, 㬨, 爀, 𥋿, 𮜜

References

• KangXi: page 1214, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37010
• Dae Jaweon: page 1682, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3508, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8D6B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		赫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 赫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
浾	*sqraː
嚇	*qʰraːɡs, *qʰraːɡ
赦	*hljaɡs
郝	*qʰljaɡ, *kʰljaɡ, *hljaɡ
赫	*qʰraːɡ
爀	*qʰraːɡ
赤	*kʰljaɡ
烾	*kʰljaɡ
螫	*qʰjaːɡ
赥	*qʰleːɡ
捇	*qʰʷreːɡ
焃	*qʰʷreːɡ

Duplication of 赤 (“red”), with 赤 (OC *kʰljaɡ) acting as the phonetic component.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hè (he⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haak¹, hak¹
• Min Bei (KCR): hă̤
• Min Dong (BUC): háik
• Min Nan (POJ): hek / hiak
• Wu (Wiktionary): haq (T4)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hè
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hè
    • Wade–Giles: ho⁴
    • Yale: hè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: heh
    • Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: haak¹, hak¹
    • Yale: hāak, hāk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haak⁷, hak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: hag¹, heg¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːk̚⁵/, /hɐk̚⁵/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: hă̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɛ²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: háik
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haiʔ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hek
    • Tâi-lô: hik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: heg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiak
    • Tâi-lô: hiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiak̚⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: haq (T4)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ha̱ʔ⁵⁵/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 赫
Mandarin	Beijing	/xɤ⁵¹/
	Harbin	/xɤ⁵³/
	Tianjin	/xɤ⁵³/
	Jinan	/xə²¹³/
	Qingdao	/xə⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/xɛ²⁴/
	Xi'an	/xei²¹/
	Xining	/xɨ⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/xa¹³/ /xɯ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/xə⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/xɤ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/xɤ²¹³/
	Chengdu	/xe³¹/
	Guiyang	/xɛ²¹/
	Kunming	/xə³¹/
	Nanjing	/xəʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/xɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/xəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/xʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/xaʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/haʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/həʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/hɑʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/ha²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/xɛʔ²¹/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/xə²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/hæ²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/hak̚¹/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/hak̚⁵/
	Nanning	/hak̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/hak̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/hik̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/hiɑʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/xɛ²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/heʔ²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/hek̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /hˠæk̚/

Rime
Character	赫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	庚 (113)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	呼格切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠæk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚak̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xak̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/haɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/xɐk̚/
Wang Li	/xɐk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/xɐk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	he
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hak1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰˤrak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰraːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	赫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hè
Middle Chinese	‹ xaek ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰˁrak/
English	red, fiery
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	赫
Reading #	1/1
No.	1474
Phonetic component	赤
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	赫
Old Chinese	/*qʰraːɡ/

Definitions

赫

1. ^† bright red
2. ^† bright; luminous
3. distinguished; eminent; glorious; awe-inspiring
4. ^† to display; to show off
5. ^† Alternative form of 嚇／吓 (hè, “to frighten”).
6. ^† angrily; furiously
7. (physics) Short for 赫茲／赫兹 (Hèzī, “hertz”).
8. a surname

Compounds

兆赫 (zhàohè) 千赫 史文赫丁 巴赫 (Bāhè) 暵赫 烜赫 翕赫 薰赫 衣冠赫奕 赫丘利斯 赫吒 赫哲族 (Hèzhézú) 赫塞 赫奕 赫德 赫斯之威 赫斯之怒 赫斯特

赫曦 赫柏定律 赫然 (hèrán) 赫羲 赫胥氏 赫胥黎 (Hèxūlí) 赫赫 (hèhè) 赫赫之光 赫赫之功 赫赫之名 赫赫名流 赫赫有名 (hèhèyǒumíng) 赫赫炎炎 赫蹄 雄雄赫赫 喧赫 巴達赫尚／巴达赫尚 (Bādáhèshàng)

憚赫／惮赫 曼赫頓／曼赫顿 烜赫一時／烜赫一时 煥赫／焕赫 燻赫／熏赫 聲勢赫赫／声势赫赫 赫戲／赫戏 赫本頭／赫本头 赫然有聲／赫然有声 赫爾辛基／赫尔辛基 (Hè'ěrxīnjī) 赫茲／赫兹 (Hèzī) 赫赫揚揚／赫赫扬扬 赫魯雪夫／赫鲁雪夫 (Hèlǔxuěfū) 輝赫／辉赫 門庭赫奕／门庭赫奕 顯赫／显赫 (xiǎnhè) 馬赫／马赫 (Mǎhè)

Pronunciation

• Min Nan (POJ): niah

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• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: niah
    • Tâi-lô: niah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: niaq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /niãʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /niãʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /niãʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /niãʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /niãʔ³²/

Definitions

赫

1. (Min Nan) to be frightened

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 赫 – see 遐 (“(Min Nan) so; that”). (This character, 赫, is a variant form of 遐.)

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Japanese

Kanji

赫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: きゃく (kyaku)
• Kan-on: かく (kaku)
• Kun: あかい (akai, 赫い); かがやく (kagayaku, 赫く)

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Korean

Hanja

赫 • (hyeok) (hangeul 혁, revised hyeok, McCune–Reischauer hyŏk, Yale hyek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

赫: Hán Nôm readings: hách, hích

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