惹 · rě
irritate, vex, offend, incite
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
irritate, vex, offend, incite
- Mandarin
- rě
- Cantonese
- je5
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 惹 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
- 야
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+60F9
- Radical
- 心 · 61
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 9
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 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 惹
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 若 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 若聲
Line 15789 · ⿱若心 · 若聲 · source reference 408@6940
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- nyaeX · 人者 反切 · #1787
- Middle Chinese
- nyak · 而灼 反切 · #3543
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 11541 · nyaeX = 假開三上麻日 · nyak = 宕開三入陽日
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- rě
- kCantonese
- je5
- kDefinition
- irritate, vex, offend, incite
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 61.9
- kGradeLevel
- 6
- kTGH
- 2013:2547
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- rě,ruò 42309.010
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- rě 0957.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- rě 313.090
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 人者 而灼
- Kangxi positions
- 0393.010
- Guangyun positions
- 309.35 502.22
- Cangjie
- TKRP
- Four-corner
- 4433.6