揠

揠	U+63E0, 揠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63E0

← 揟
[U+63DF]

CJK Unified Ideographs

握 →
[U+63E1]

Translingual

Han character

揠 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手尸日女 (QSAV), four-corner 5101₄, composition ⿰扌匽)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 443, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12363
Dae Jaweon: page 794, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1913, character 4
Unihan data for U+63E0

Chinese

trad.		揠
simp. ^#		揠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 揠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
堰	qrens, qanʔ, *qans
躽	qrens, qeːnʔ
宴	qeːnʔ, qeːns
蝘	qeːnʔ, qanʔ
偃	*qanʔ
郾	qanʔ, qans
鶠	*qanʔ
褗	qanʔ, qans
匽	*qanʔ
鼴	*qanʔ
鰋	*qanʔ
揠	*qreːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qreːd): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 匽 (OC *qanʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yà (ya⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): aat³
Eastern Min (BUC): ák
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ah⁶
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): at

(Teochew, Peng'im): ag⁴
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷aq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yà
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yà
  - Wade–Giles: ya⁴
  - Yale: yà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yah
  - Palladius: я (ja)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: aat³
  - Yale: aat
  - Cantonese Pinyin: aat⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: ad³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /aːt̚³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ák
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɑʔ²⁴/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ah⁶
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ah
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /aʔ²¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ah⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /aʔ²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: at
  - Tâi-lô: at
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ad
  - IPA (Xiamen): /at̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /at̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /at̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /at̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /at̚³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ag⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ak
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ak̚²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷aq
  - MiniDict: ah^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴aq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /aʔ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: 'eat

Rime
Character	揠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	鎋 (75)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	烏黠切
Baxter	'eat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠɛt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚæt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəɨt̚/
Li Rong	/ʔɛt̚/
Wang Li	/æt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔat̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ya
Expected Cantonese Reflex	aat³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤr[e]t/

(Zhengzhang): /*qreːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	揠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yà
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔɛt ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˁr[e]t/
English	pull up
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	揠
Reading #	1/1
No.	14396
Phonetic component	妟
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	軋
Old Chinese	/*qreːd/

Definitions

揠

to pull up
to promote

Compounds

揠苗助長 / 揠苗助长 (yàmiáozhùzhǎng)

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “揠”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 274.

Japanese

Kanji

揠

(Hyōgai kanji)

to pull up
to eradicate

Readings

On (unclassified): さつ (satsu)、あつ (atsu)
Kun: ぬく (nuku)、ふだ (fuda)

Korean

Hanja

揠 • (al) (hangeul 알, revised al, McCune–Reischauer al, Yale al)

Vietnamese

Han character

揠: Hán Nôm readings: kiền, loát

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References

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