劃

See also: 划

劃	U+5283, 劃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5283

← 劂
[U+5282]

CJK Unified Ideographs

劄 →
[U+5284]

Translingual

Han character

劃 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中一中弓 (LMLN), four-corner 5210₀, composition ⿰畫刂)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 144, character 10
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2193
Dae Jaweon: page 325, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 356, character 8
Unihan data for U+5283

Chinese

trad.		劃
simp.		划^*
alternative forms		㓰𠜻𠟱𠟷

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
畫	ɡʷreːɡs, ɡʷreːɡ
澅	*ɡʷreːɡs
繣	ɡʷreːɡs, qʰʷreːɡ
劃	qʰʷreːɡ, ɡʷreːɡ
嫿	*ɡʷreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰʷreːɡ, *ɡʷreːɡ) : phonetic 畫 (OC *ɡʷreːɡs, *ɡʷreːɡ) + semantic 刂 (“knife”).

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huá, huà (hua², hua⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˊ, ㄏㄨㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waak⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): va̍k

(Meixian, Guangdong): vag⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): oe̍h / u̍ih / oa̍h / ōa / he̍k / hia̍k / hōa
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸waq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: huá
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: huá
  - Wade–Giles: hua²
  - Yale: hwá
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwa
  - Palladius: хуа (xua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: huà
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: huà
  - Wade–Giles: hua⁴
  - Yale: hwà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huah
  - Palladius: хуа (xua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵¹/

Note:

huá - “to rub with a sharp thing”;
huà - “to mark off”.

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: waak⁶
  - Yale: waahk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waak⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wag⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːk̚²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: va̍k
  - Hakka Romanization System: vag
  - Hagfa Pinyim: vag⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /vak̚⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: vag⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /ʋak̚⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oe̍h
  - Tâi-lô: ue̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oeh
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ueʔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ueʔ⁴/
- (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: u̍ih
  - Tâi-lô: ui̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: uih
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /uiʔ⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oa̍h
  - Tâi-lô: ua̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oah
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /uaʔ¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ōa
  - Tâi-lô: uā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oa
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ua³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ua²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: he̍k
  - Tâi-lô: hi̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hek
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hiɪk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɪk̚¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hia̍k
  - Tâi-lô: hia̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hiak
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hiak̚²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hōa
  - Tâi-lô: huā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoa
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hua²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hua⁴¹/

Note:

oe̍h/u̍ih/oa̍h - vernacular (“to delimit; to transfer (Mainland); stroke; horizontal stroke”);
ōa - vernacular;
hia̍k/he̍k/hōa - literary.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁸waq
  - MiniDict: wah^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵hhuaq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦuaʔ¹²/

Middle Chinese: hweak, xweak

Rime
Character	劃	劃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	麥 (120)	麥 (120)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	胡麥切	呼麥切
Baxter	hweak	xweak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠwɛk̚/	/hˠwɛk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚæk̚/	/hʷᵚæk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɐk̚/	/xuɐk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwəɨjk̚/	/hwəɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/ɣuɛk̚/	/xuɛk̚/
Wang Li	/ɣwæk̚/	/xwæk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣwæk̚/	/xwæk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huó	huo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wak⁶	fak¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ɡʷˤrek/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷreːɡ/, /*qʰʷreːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	劃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huà
Middle Chinese	‹ hwɛk ›
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷˁrek/
English	draw (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	劃	劃
Reading #	2/2	1/2
No.	5337	5334
Phonetic component	畫	畫
Rime group	錫	錫
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	獲	剨
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷreːɡ/	/*qʰʷreːɡ/

Definitions

劃

to delimit; to differentiate；to divide; to mark off
劃界／划界 ― huàjiè ― to divide the boundary
to transfer (money, accounts, etc.)
劃款／划款 ― huàkuǎn ― to transfer money
to assign (task, etc.)
他把任務劃給這個小組負責。 [MSC, trad.]
他把任务划给这个小组负责。 [MSC, simp.]
Tā bǎ rènwù huà gěi zhè ge xiǎozǔ fùzé. [Pinyin]
He assigned the task to that group.
to plan
籌劃／筹划 ― chóuhuà ― to plan and prepare
to gesture as a signal
比劃／比划 ― bǐhuà ― to gesticulate
to scratch; to cut (the surface)
Alternative form of 畫 / 画 (“stroke of a Chinese character (line drawn with a writing implement)”)
(dialectal) Alternative form of 畫 / 画 (“horizontal stroke of a Chinese character”)
Used in 劃然／划然.
(South Korean idol fandom, humorous) NCT (group)

Compounds

References

(Min Nan) “Entry #10409”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
“劃”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huai (huai⁵／huai⁰)

(Zhuyin): ˙ㄏㄨㄞ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: huai
  - Zhuyin: ˙ㄏㄨㄞ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: huåi
  - Wade–Giles: huai⁵
  - Yale: hwai
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .huai
  - Palladius: хуай (xuaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯aɪ̯/

Definitions

劃

Only used in 㓦劃／㓦划 (bāihuai).

Japanese

Kanji

劃

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

On (unclassified): かく (kaku)^{←くわく (kwaku, historical)}
Kun: くぎる (kugiru)、わかつ (wakatsu)

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
劃
かく Hyōgai
kan'on

For pronunciation and definitions of 劃 – see the following entry.

【画かく】2

[noun] delimiter, demarcation, stopping point

[noun] plan, strategy

(This term, 劃, is an alternative spelling (dated) of the above term.)

Usage notes

In modern Japanese, 劃 is mostly replaced by 画, due to the deprecation of non-tōyō kanji caused by the Japanese script reform.

Japanese terms with 劃 replaced by daiyōji 画

画

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 劃 (MC hweak).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448	ᅘᅬᆨ〮 (Yale: hhwóyk)
Middle Korean
Text	Eumhun
Text	*Gloss (hun)*	Reading
Sinjeung Yuhap, 1576	긋 (Yale: kus)	획 (Yale: hwoyk)

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɸwe̞k̚] ~ [hø̞k̚]
Phonetic hangul: [훽/획]

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

劃

Wikisource

劃 (eumhun 그을 획 (geueul hoek))

hanja form^? of 획 (“to carve; to set in stone”)
hanja form^? of 획 (“to plan”)
hanja form^? of 획 (“to draw a line; to mark”)

Compounds

계획 (計劃, gyehoek)
기획 (企劃, gihoek)
점획 (點劃, jeomhoek)
필획 (筆劃, pilhoek)
획책 (劃策, hoekchaek)
획순 (劃順, hoeksun)
획일 (劃一, hoegil)
구획 (區劃, guhoek)
획수 (劃數, hoeksu)
획연 (劃然, hoegyeon)
획기적 (劃期的, hoekgijeok)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

Han character

劃: Hán Nôm readings: vạch, hoạch, đạch, gạch, hoa

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