掔
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Translingual
Han character
掔 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸水手 (SEQ), four-corner 77502, composition ⿱臤手)
Derived characters
- 𢴡
Further reading
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 437, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12259
- Dae Jaweon: page 787, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1889, character 1
- Unihan data for U+6394
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
掔 | |
|---|---|---|
| alternative forms | 孯 ancient | |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (臣) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰriːn, *kʰiːn): phonetic 臤 (OC *kʰaːn, *kʰriːn, *ɡiːn, *kʰins) + semantic 手.
Etymology 1
Kra-Dai origin according to Schuessler, 2003. Compare Proto-Tai *k.reːŋᴬ (“hard”). See also 堅.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: qiān
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ
- Tongyong Pinyin: cian
- Wade–Giles: chʻien1
- Yale: chyān
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chian
- Palladius: цянь (cjanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: haan1 / hin1
- Yale: hāan / hīn
- Cantonese Pinyin: haan1 / hin1
- Guangdong Romanization: han1 / hin1
- Sinological IPA (key): /haːn⁵⁵/, /hiːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Middle Chinese: khean, khen
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*kʰriːn/, /*kʰiːn/
Definitions
掔
- sturdy, strong, firm
- to strengthen, to reinforce
- to hit, to attack
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to lead, to tow
Etymology 2
Definitions
| For pronunciation and definitions of 掔 – see 腕 (“wrist; arm”). (This character is an ancient form of 腕). |
References
- “掔”, 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–
Japanese
Kanji
掔
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