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Mythic Mandarin

核 (hé): meaning and stroke order

核 (hé) means pit, stone, nucleus, nuclear, to examine, to check, to verify, variant of 核.

核

Simplified
核
Traditional
核, 覈
Pinyin
hé

Stroke order of 核

核

  • hé pit; stone
  • hé variant of 核[he2]; to investigate
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 覈

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 核

  1. hé
    • pit
    • stone
    • nucleus
    • nuclear
    • to examine
    • to check
    • to verify
  2. hé Traditional 覈
    • variant of 核[he2]
    • to investigate

Radical and structure

核
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 10 strokes · 木 on the left, 亥 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 核

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).