Character: 濩
Modern (Beijing) reading: huò
Preclassic Old Chinese: w(h)āk
Classic Old Chinese: w(h)āk
Western Han Chinese: w(h)āk
Eastern Han Chinese: w(h)āk
Early Postclassic Chinese: w(h)āk
Middle Postclassic Chinese: w(h)āk
Late Postclassic Chinese: w(h)āk
Middle Chinese: ɣwâk
English meaning : to boil
Russian meaning[s]: кипеть*
Shuowen gloss: 雨流霤下貌.從水.�聲.
Comments: Etymologically the same word - *w(h)āk 'boiling device, large cauldron' - is attested during Late Zhou in the graphic shape 鑊. Standard Sino-Viet. is quặc (an irregular reading).
A later attested meaning (reflected in the Shuowen) is 'to pour heavily (of rain)'.
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 9999
Karlgren code: 0784 j
Vietnamese reading: vạc
Shijing occurrences: 2.2_
