核
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pit; stone; nucleus; nuclear; to examine; to check; to verify
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 核
- Common rank
- #341
- Unicode
- U+6838
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 核
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 有核国家 | nuclear weapon states | |
| 核大国 | a nuclear power (country) | |
| 无核区 | nuclear weapon-free zone | |
| 核国家 | nuclear nations | |
| 无核化 | to make nuclear-free; to de-nuclearize | |
| 核小体 | nucleosome | |
| 核动力 | nuclear power | |
| 核发电 | nuclear power generation | |
| 核物理 | nuclear physics | |
| 原核生物 | prokaryote | |
| 核合成 | nucleosynthesis | |
| 非核国家 | non-nuclear country | |
| 核子 | nuclear; nucleus | |
| 非核武器国家 | non-nuclear weapon states (NNWS) | |
| 核心 | core; nucleus | |
| 地核 | (geology) Earth's core | |
| 无核 | nonnuclear; seedless (botany) | |
| 核儿 | pit (stone of a fruit) | |
| 原子核 | atomic nucleus | |
| 核电 | nuclear power |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 亥 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亥 sound part | 12th terrestrial branch; used in transliterations | |
| 刻 | to carve, to engrave; a quarter hour; a moment | |
| 孩 | baby, child; children | |
| 该 | should, ought to, must | |
| 骇 | to terrify, to shock, to frighten | |
| 咳 | to cough | |
| 骸 | skeleton, body; leg bone | |
| 颏 | chin | |
| 赅 | to include; to prepare for | |
| 劾 | to look into; to impeach, to charge | |
| 氦 | helium | |
| 垓 | border, boundary, frontier | |
| 阂 | separated, blocked; to prevent, to block | |
| 胲 | hydroxylamine | |
| 陔 | ledge, step, terrace; slope |