inferior kind of jade

Possibly jade  also provides the pronunciation

Components
王 meaning component

  Meaning component

wángwàng

  

king

可 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

able to

Evolution

珂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
珂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

inferior kind of jade; jade-like stone

Most common words with 珂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

jade-like stone

珂罗版

collotype (printing) (loanword)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3622nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+73C2

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“珂,玉也。从玉,可聲。”


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