則 hanja, meaning rule, read 칙 (chik)

Reading

칙chik

Also read 즉 (jeuk)

rule, law, regulation; grades

법칙 칙beopchik chik

Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 법칙 (beopchik) is the Korean for rule, and 칙 (chik) is the reading. Say 법칙 칙 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.

Strokes
9
Radical
⼑ 18
Beyond radical
7
Mandarin
zé
Japanese on
soku
Japanese kun
nori

Vocabulary

Words that use 則

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反則반칙banchik

against the rules

Character by character reverse + rule

Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.