惑 (Kangxi radical 61,心+8, 12 strokes,cangjie input戈一心 (IMP),four-corner53330,composition⿱或心)
- Kangxi Dictionary:page 390, character 34
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10789
- Dae Jaweon: page 725, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2309, character 9
- Unihan data for U+60D1
| Old Chinese |
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| 幗 | *kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ |
| 慖 | *kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ |
| 簂 | *kʷɯːɡs |
| 蔮 | *kʷɯːɡs |
| 國 | *kʷɯːɡ |
| 或 | *ɡʷɯːɡ |
| 惑 | *ɡʷɯːɡ |
| 蜮 | *ɡʷɯːɡ, *ɢʷrɯɡ |
| 閾 | *qʰʷrɯɡ |
| 緎 | *qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ |
| 淢 | *qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ |
| 域 | *ɢʷrɯɡ |
| 罭 | *ɢʷrɯɡ |
| 棫 | *ɡʷrɯɡ |
| 琙 | *ɡʷrɯɡ |
| 魊 | *ɡʷrɯɡ |
| 馘 | *kʷrɯːɡ |
| 聝 | *kʷrɯːɡ |
| 膕 | *kʷrɯːɡ |
| 摑 | *kʷrɯːɡ |
| 漍 | *kʷrɯːɡ |
| 嘓 | *kʷrɯːɡ |
| 蟈 | *kʷrɯːɡ |
| 掝 | *qʰʷrɯːɡ |
| 彧 | *qʷrɯɡ |
| 稶 | *qʷɯɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*ɡʷɯːɡ): phonetic 或(OC*ɡʷɯːɡ) + semantic 心(“heart”).
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) |
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| Character | 惑 |
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| Reading # | 1/1 |
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) | huò |
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Middle
Chinese | ‹ hwok › |
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Old
Chinese | /*[ɢ]ʷˁək/ |
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| English | deceive |
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary. |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) |
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| Character | 惑 |
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| Reading # | 1/1 |
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| No. | 5549 |
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Phonetic
component | 或 |
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Rime
group | 職 |
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Rime
subdivision | 0 |
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Corresponding
MC rime | 或 |
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Old
Chinese | /*ɡʷɯːɡ/ |
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惑
- confused;puzzled;deluded
- 大惑不解 ― dàhuòbùjiě ― muchconfused, unable to explain
子曰：「知者不惑，仁者不憂，勇者不懼。」[Classical Chinese,trad.]
子曰：「知者不惑，仁者不忧，勇者不惧。」[Classical Chinese,simp.]- From: TheAnalects of Confucius,c. 475 – 221BCE
- Zǐ yuē: “Zhī zhě bùhuò, rén zhě bù yōu, yǒng zhě bù jù.”[Pinyin]
- The Master said, "The wise are notconfused, the benevolent do not worry, and the brave do not fear.
三人行而一人惑，所適者猶可致也，惑者少也；二人惑則勞而不至，惑者勝也；而今也以天下惑。[Classical Chinese,trad.]
三人行而一人惑，所适者犹可致也，惑者少也；二人惑则劳而不至，惑者胜也；而今也以天下惑。[Classical Chinese,simp.]- From:Zhuangzi, circa 3rd – 2nd centuriesBCE
- Sān rén xíng ér yī rénhuò, suǒ shì zhě yóu kě zhì yě,huò zhě shào yě; èr rénhuò zé láo ér bù zhì,huò zhě shèng yě; ér jīn yě yǐ tiānxiàhuò.[Pinyin]
- If three people walk and one of them isdeluded, they can still reach the place they are heading for; thedeluded are in the minority. If two [of the three] are deluded, they will toil but never arrive; thedeluded are in the majority. And today, All Under Heaven isdeluded.
- toconfuse; todelude; tomislead
- 妖言惑眾／妖言惑众 ― yāoyánhuòzhòng ― to speak deceit anddelude the masses
- (literary) toinfatuate; to beobsessed with, to beinfatuated with
- (Buddhism)sensorydelusion
- “惑”, in重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese),National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan),2021.
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01381
- “惑”, in教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien),Ministry of Education, R.O.C.,2025.
- “Entry #7757”, in臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka),Ministry of Education, R.O.C.,2022.
- “惑”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
惑
(Jōyō kanji)
- beguile
FromMiddle Chinese惑 (MC hwok).
| Historical readings |
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| Dongguk Jeongun reading |
| Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 | ᅘᅬᆨ〮 (Yale:hhwóyk) |
惑 (eumhun미혹할혹(mihokhal hok))
- hanja form? of혹(“tobeguile; tocaptivate”)[verbal stem]
- hanja form? of혹(“confusion”)[affix]
Compounds
- 불혹 (不惑,bulhok)
- 혹세무민 (惑世誣民,hoksemumin)
- 유혹 (誘惑,yuhok)
- 미혹 (迷惑,mihok)
- 의혹 (疑惑,uihok)
- 현혹 (眩惑,hyeonhok)
- 현혹적 (眩惑的,hyeonhokjeok)
- 매혹 (魅惑,maehok)
- 매혹적 (魅惑的,maehokjeok)
- 고혹 (蠱惑,gohok)
- 고혹적 (蠱惑的,gohokjeok)
- 편혹 (偏惑,pyeonhok)
惑:Hán Nôm readings:hoặc
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