覈
hé HSK7

investigate

Phonosemantic compound. 襾 represents the meaning and 敫 represents the sound.

Components

襾
襾 Meaning component
yà cover
敫
敫 Sound component
jiǎo, qiāo, jiào shining light
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartheak[g]ˤr[ə]k (or *[g]ˤrewk?)kernel

說文解字

《說文》：“覈，實也，考事襾笮，邀遮其辤，得實曰覈。从襾，敫聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)