确 · què
sure, certain; real, true
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
sure, certain; real, true
- Mandarin
- què
- Cantonese
- kok3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 确 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.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 학
- KS X 1002 (1) · 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+786E
- Radical
- 石 · 112
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
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 确
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 角 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 角聲
Line 16403 · ⿰石角 · 角聲 · source reference 3570270
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
確
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- haewk · 胡覺 反切 · #3280
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 16884 · haewk = 江開二入江匣
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
- què
- kCantonese
- kok3
- kDefinition
- sure, certain; real, true
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 112.7
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+786E U+78BA
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+786E
- kTGH
- 2013:2591
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- què 42434.110
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- què 0952.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- què 311.040
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- què(927)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- què粵kok3