掂

掂	U+6382, 掂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6382

← 掁
[U+6381]

CJK Unified Ideographs

掃 →
[U+6383]

Translingual

Han character

掂 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手戈卜口 (QIYR), four-corner 5006₁, composition ⿰扌店)

Derived characters

𫫓

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 436, character 12
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12235
Dae Jaweon: page 785, character 23
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1903, character 4
Unihan data for U+6382

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (占) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
頕	*taːm
煔	ɦlaːm, hljems, *hl'eːms
炶	*ɦlaːm
詀	rteːm, rdeːms, teːm, tʰjeb
站	*rteːms
檆	*sreːm
黏	*nem
粘	*nem
枮	slem, ʔl'ɯm
霑	*tem
沾	tem, teːms, *tʰeːm
覘	tems, tʰem
鉆	tʰem, ɡrem, *tʰeːb
占	ʔljem, tjems
颭	*tjemʔ
佔	tjems, teːm
苫	hljem, hljems
痁	hljem, teːms
蛅	*njem
阽	*lem
敁	*teːm
掂	*tiːm
點	*teːmʔ
玷	teːmʔ, teːms
店	*tiːms
坫	tiːms, tim
黇	*tʰeːm
扂	*deːmʔ
拈	*neːm
鮎	*neːm
砧	*ʔl'ɯm
笘	*teːb
跕	teːb, tʰeːb
貼	*tʰeːb
帖	*tʰeːb
怗	*tʰeːb
呫	*tʰeːb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tiːm): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 店 (OC *tiːms).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		掂
alternative forms		敁

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): diān (dian¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dim¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiam

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: diān
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dian
  - Wade–Giles: tien¹
  - Yale: dyān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dian
  - Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: dim¹
  - Yale: dīm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dim¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: dim¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːm⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiam
  - Tâi-lô: tiam
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diafm
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tiam³³/

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*tiːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	掂
Reading #	1/1
No.	16720
Phonetic component	占
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	𩬑
Old Chinese	/*tiːm/
Notes	敁晚起分化字

Definitions

掂

to weigh in the hand
to break; to snap off
to haggle over; to bother about
to take

Synonyms

(to weigh in the hand): (colloquial) 掂掇 (diānduo), 掂量 (diānliáng)

Compounds

扎掂
掂倈 / 掂俫
掂對 / 掂对
掂折
掂掇 (diānduo)
掂提
掂斤估兩 / 掂斤估两
掂斤抹兩 / 掂斤抹两
掂斤播兩 / 掂斤播两
掂梢折本
掂腳舒腰 / 掂脚舒腰
掂詳 / 掂详
掂過兒 / 掂过儿
掂量 (diānliáng)
沒掂三 / 没掂三

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		掂
alternative forms		𠶧

Matisoff (2006) considers it to be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-(t/d)jam (“full; straight; flat”).

Pronunciation

Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): dim⁶

(Taishan, Wiktionary): iam⁵

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: dim⁶
  - Yale: dihm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dim⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: dim⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːm²²/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: iam⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iam³²/

Definitions

掂 (Cantonese)

straight; upright
(of matters) settled; steady; OK
(of speech) clear and smooth

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 豎 (“vertical; upright”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		豎
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	豎
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	豎
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	豎, 順, 立
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	豎, 立
	Wuhan	豎, 直
	Guiyang	豎, 直
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	豎
Jianghuai Mandarin	Hefei	豎
Cantonese	Guangzhou	掂, 戙
	Hong Kong	直, 掂, 戙
	Yangjiang	掂, 直
Gan	Nanchang	敦, 直
Hakka	Meixian	直
Jin	Taiyuan	豎
Northern Min	Jian'ou	直
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	直, 徛
Southern Min	Xiamen	徛
Southern Min	Chaozhou	徛, 直
Wu	Suzhou	直, 豎
Wu	Wenzhou	豎
Xiang	Changsha	敦, 直
Xiang	Shuangfeng	敦, 直

Compounds

傾掂 / 倾掂
唔掂
得掂
打掂
打橫打掂 / 打横打掂
掂當 / 掂当
掂行掂過 / 掂行掂过
掂過轆蔗 / 掂过辘蔗
搞掂
攞把頸掂 / 𫽋把颈掂
斟掂
橫掂 / 横掂
橫死掂死 / 横死掂死
橫睇掂睇 / 横睇掂睇

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		掂
alternative forms		玷

Pronunciation

Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): dim³

(Taishan, Wiktionary): iam¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: dim³
  - Yale: dim
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dim³
  - Guangdong Romanization: dim³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːm³³/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: iam¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iam³³/

Definitions

掂 (Cantonese)

to touch
唔好掂佢啲嘢 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
m⁴ hou² dim³ keoi⁵ di¹ je⁵ [Jyutping]
don't touch their stuff

Etymology 4

simp. and trad.		掂
alternative forms		敁鈂／𬬵

Pronunciation

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tìm

Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tìm
  - Tâi-lô: tìm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dixm
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tim²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tim⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tim²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tim¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tim²¹/

Definitions

掂 (Hokkien)

to weigh in the hand
heavy
(of colour) dark

Etymology 5

For pronunciation and definitions of 掂 – see 踮 (“to stand on one's tiptoes; to live; to stay; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 踮).

References

“掂”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
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Japanese

Kanji

掂

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): てん (ten)
Kun: はかる (hakaru)

Vietnamese

Han character

掂: Hán Nôm readings: giếm

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