荷 · hé
lotus, water lily; Holland
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
lotus, water lily; Holland
- Mandarin
- hé
- Cantonese
- ho4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 荷 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
- 하
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
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+8377
- Radical
- 艸 · 140
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 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 荷
Character connections
1 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.
Component roles · attributed
- 何 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 何聲
Line 4595 · ⿱艹何 · 何聲 · source reference 0121930
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
- ha · 胡歌 反切 · #735
- Middle Chinese
- haX · 胡可 反切 · #1740
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 6024 · ha = 果開一平歌匣 · haX = 果開一上歌匣
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
- hé
- kCantonese
- ho4
- kDefinition
- lotus, water lily; Holland
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 140.7
- kGradeLevel
- 2
- kTGH
- 2013:1826
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- hé,hè,hē 53220.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- hé 0451.010 · hè 0455.080
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- hé 134.100 · hè 135.120
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- hé粵ho4 hè粵ho6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 胡歌 胡可
- Kangxi positions
- 1032.130
- Guangyun positions
- 161.17 304.47
- GSR references
- 0001o
- Cangjie
- TOMR
- Four-corner
- 4422.1