滑 · huá
slip, slide; slippery, polished
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
slip, slide; slippery, polished
- Mandarin
- huá
- Cantonese
- waat6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 滑 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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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
カツ コツ ゲチ コチ すべる なめらか みだす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
- 골
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
- 활
- KS X 1001 (0) · 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+6ED1
- Radical
- 水 · 85
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 10
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 滑
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 骨 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 骨聲
Line 2693 · ⿰氵骨 · 骨聲 · source reference 4102360
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
- kwot · 古忽 反切 · #3372
- Middle Chinese
- hwot · 戸骨 反切 · #3388
- Middle Chinese
- hweat · 戸八 反切 · #3427
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 17428 · kwot = 臻合一入魂見 · hwot = 臻合一入魂匣 · hweat = 山合二入山匣
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
- huá
- kCantonese
- waat6
- kDefinition
- slip, slide; slippery, polished
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 85.10
- kTGH
- 2013:2761
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- huá,gǔ 31678.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- huá 0482.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- huá 143.050
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- huá(70) hua(27)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- huá粵waat6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 古忽 戶骨 戶八
- Kangxi positions
- 0643.030
- Guangyun positions
- 480.03 482.53 488.21
- GSR references
- 0486e
- Cangjie
- EBBB
- Four-corner
- 3712.7