鬲, originally a three-legged cauldron, mainly serves as a phonetic component to form characters. It also servers as well as a semantic component.
Characters formed by the phonetic component 鬲
隔 镉 膈 嗝 塥 滆 槅 鞷 gé
融 曧 瀜 螎 róng
鹝 虉 yì
Characters formed by the semantic component 鬲
| 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 | 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 |
| 10 | 鬲 | gé,lì | 16 | 鬳 | yàn |
| 17 | 鬴 | fǔ | 18 | 鬶 | guī |
| 18 | 鬵 | zèng | 19 | 鬷 | zōng |
| 20 | 鬸 | liù | 21 | 鬹 | guī |
| 21 | 鬺 | shāng | 22 | 鬻 | yù |