敜

敜	U+655C, 敜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-655C

← 敛
[U+655B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

敝 →
[U+655D]

Translingual

Han character

敜 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人心人大 (OPOK), four-corner 8834₀, composition ⿰念攵)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 472, character 10
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13244
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1467, character 10
Unihan data for U+655C

Chinese

trad.		敜
simp. ^#		敜

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
淰	rnɯːmʔ, nɯːmʔ, *hnjɯmʔ
唸	tɯːms, tɯːns
埝	tɯːms, nɯːb
趝	klɯːms, n̥ʰɯːms
諗	*hnjɯmʔ
稔	*njɯːm
棯	*njɯmʔ
腍	*njɯmʔ
捻	*nɯːb
錜	*nɯːb
敜	*nɯːb
惗	nɯːb, sens
菍	nɯːb, nɯːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *nɯːb): phonetic 念 (OC *nɯːms) + semantic 攴.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): niè (nie⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄝˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): nip⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: niè
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄝˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: niè
  - Wade–Giles: nieh⁴
  - Yale: nyè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nieh
  - Palladius: не (ne)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: nip⁶
  - Yale: nihp
  - Cantonese Pinyin: nip⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: nib⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /niːp̚²/

Middle Chinese: nep

Rime
Character	敜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	怗 (158)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	奴協切
Baxter	nep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nep̚/
Pan Wuyun	/nep̚/
Shao Rongfen	/nɛp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nɛp̚/
Li Rong	/nep̚/
Wang Li	/niep̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/niep̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	niè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nip⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*nɯːb/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	敜
Reading #	1/1
No.	9503
Phonetic component	念
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	苶
Old Chinese	/*nɯːb/

Definitions

敜

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, Classical) to stop up

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 敜 – see 捻 (“to press”). (This character is a variant form of 捻).