TSUMUGU · C1 (est.) · 字
豁
ㄏㄨㄛˋ · huò/huō
adj — open, wide, cleared (huò) — verb — to give up, to crack open (huō)
字源 FORM — what the parts do
IFThài → huò — initial, final and tone all moved off the donor
A valley (谷) thrown open — wide, cleared. The old graph carries two tellings: a valley with 害 set beside it for the sound hài, worn to huò; or 谷 split apart (分) for the crack itself. Either way the picture is an opening. From the opened valley: 豁然 suddenly clear, 豁達 open-minded, 豁口 a breach. As huō it means to crack wide open, to stake it all: 豁出去.
意 · Meanings
huò
(本義)豁、豁然— open, suddenly clear常用
→豁達— open-minded, magnanimous
huō
(本義)豁出去— to crack open; to stake it all常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
害hàithe sound it carries — 害 alone is harm, injury; 豁 sets it under a valley for wide open谿xīthe it shares — 谿 keeps the valley for a mountain stream; 豁 throws the valley open