huò

harvest

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
禾 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

grain stalk

蒦 sound component

  Sound component

huò

  

catch, get

Evolution

穫 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
穫 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
穫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
穫 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
穫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

huò

harvest, cut grain; to reap; to harvest

Most common words with 穫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

获得

to obtain

to catch

获胜

victorious

收获

to harvest

获取

to gain

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-qʷˤak

hwak

huò

reap


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 47.3170% of movies

877th most common character in movies

688th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+7A6B

Shuowen

“穫,刈穀也。从禾,蒦聲。”


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