核心

Chinese

		nuclear; atomic; stone (of fruit)	heart; mind
simp. and trad. (核心)		核	心

Mandarin
(Pinyin): héxīn

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄒㄧㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hat⁶ sam¹ / wat⁶ sam¹
Jin (Wiktionary): heh⁵ xing¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hu̍t-sim / he̍k-sim

(Teochew, Peng'im): hêg⁴ sim¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: héxīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄒㄧㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hésin
  - Wade–Giles: ho²-hsin¹
  - Yale: hé-syīn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hershin
  - Palladius: хэсинь (xɛsinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ ɕin⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hat⁶ sam¹ / wat⁶ sam¹
  - Yale: haht sām / waht sām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hat⁹ sam¹ / wat⁹ sam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hed⁶ sem¹ / wed⁶ sem¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐt̚² sɐm⁵⁵/, /wɐt̚² sɐm⁵⁵/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: heh⁵ xing¹
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /xəʔ⁵⁴ ɕiŋ¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hu̍t-sim
  - Tâi-lô: hu̍t-sim
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hudsym
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hut̚⁴⁻³² sim⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hut̚¹²¹⁻²¹ sim⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hut̚²⁴⁻² sim³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: he̍k-sim
  - Tâi-lô: hi̍k-sim
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hegsym
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɪk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ sim⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hiɪk̚⁴⁻³² sim⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hêg⁴ sim¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hek sim
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hek̚²⁻⁴ sim³³/

核心

(centre): 當心／当心 (dāngxīn), 當中／当中 (dāngzhōng), 中央 (zhōngyāng), 中心 (zhōngxīn)

核心

From 核 (kaku, “nucleus”) + 心 (shin, “central part”).

核(かく)心(しん) • (kakushin)

core, heart
ニュースの核心(かくしん)に迫(せま)る
nyūsu no kakushin ni semaru
get to the crux of the news

Hanja in this term
核	心

核心 • (haeksim) (hangeul 핵심)