册 · cè
book, volume, register, list
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
book, volume, register, list
- Mandarin
- cè
- Cantonese
- caak3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 册 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 책
- Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+518C
- Radical
- 冂 · 13
- Strokes
- 5 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
5 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 册
Character connections
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History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- cè
- kCantonese
- caak3
- kDefinition
- book, volume, register, list
- kTotalStrokes
- 5
- kRSUnicode
- 13.3
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+518A U+518C
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+518C
- kTGH
- 2013:290
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- cè,zhà 10099.080
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- cè 0110.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- cè 033.010
Reference desk
- Kangxi positions
- 0129.051
- GSR references
- 0845a
- Cangjie
- BBM
- Four-corner
- 7744.5 7744.0