曳

曳 (Kangxi radical 73, 曰+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 中田心 (LWP), four-corner 5000₆)

• 㖂, 拽, 洩, 㹭, 栧, 䄿, 絏, 䎈, 䛖, 跩, 齥(𱌱), 曵, 䒶, 䇩, 㡼
• (mirrored) 更, 㤤, 㻀, 茰, 䛕

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 502, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14282
• Dae Jaweon: page 874, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1486, character 5
• Unihan data for U+66F3

Possibly ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 𦥑 (“two hands”) + 人 (“person”) – two hands dragging a person. Compare 臾.

Alternatively, Shuowen interprets the character as a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *leds, *led): semantic 申 + phonetic 𠂆 (yì).

Possibly related to 抴 (OC *lebs, *led, “to pull”) (Wang, 1982; Schuessler, 2007).

曳

1. to drag; to pull

   • 填然鼓之，兵刃既接，棄甲曳兵而走。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     填然鼓之，兵刃既接，弃甲曳兵而走。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Tián rán gǔ zhī, bīng rèn jì jiē, qì jiǎ yè bīng ér zǒu. [Pinyin]

     The soldiers move forward to the sound of the drums; and after their weapons have been crossed, on one side they throw away their coats of mail, trail their arms behind them, and run.

   Synonyms: 拽 (zhuài), 拖 (tuō), 拉 (lā)

2. (literary) to float in the wind; to sway
3. (obsolete) tired; fatigued

Compare Zhuang yaez (“inferior”).

曳

1. (Cantonese) inferior; of poor quality
   • 1912, James Dyer Ball, How to Speak Cantonese, fourth edition, Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh, pages 76–77:

     幾時有厦門波碌呢？我好中意食𡃉。暹羅嘅冇咁好、本地又好𠯋嘅。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     几时有厦门波碌呢？我好中意食𡃉。暹罗嘅冇咁好、本地又好𠯋嘅。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     gei² si^4-2 jau⁵ haa⁶ mun⁴ bo¹ luk¹ ni¹? ngo⁵ hou² zung¹ ji³ sik⁶ gaa³. cim³ lo^4-2 ge³ mou⁵ gam³ hou², bun² dei^6-2 jau⁶ hou² jai⁴ ge³. [Jyutping]

     When shall we get Amoy pumeloes? I like them very much. The Siamese ones are not as good, and the Cantonese are very bad.

   • 1962, 吳文浩, directed by 吳回, 難得有情郎 [It's Hard to Get a Loving Man]‎^[1], spoken by 劉宗漢 (周驄 [Chow Chung]):

     我專登搵件曳啲㗎喎。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     我专登揾件曳啲㗎㖞。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     ngo⁵ zyun¹ dang¹ wan² gin⁶ jai⁵ di¹ ga³ wo³. [Jyutping]

     I was deliberately looking for something [a jacket] of poorer quality.

2. (Cantonese) naughty; ill-behaved; unruly
   • (Can we date this quote?), “布公仔歌”, 鄭國江 [Cheng Kwok Kong] (lyrics), 顧家煇 [Joseph Koo] (music)‎^[2]:

     就算我好曳莫發嬲 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     就算我好曳莫发嬲 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     zau⁶ syun³ ngo⁵ hou² jai⁵ mok⁶ faat³ nau¹ [Jyutping]

     Even if I'm really naughty, don't get mad

   • 2023, “Blue Monkey”, Oscar (lyrics), 陳卓賢 [Ian Chan] (music)‎^[3]performed by 江𤒹生 [Anson Kong]:

     怎玩至會更加曳 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     怎玩至会更加曳 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     zam² waan^4-2 zi³ wui⁵ gang³ gaa¹ jai⁵ [Jyutping]

     How should one play to be naughtier?

• (antonym(s) of “naughty”): (Cantonese) 乖 (gwaai1)

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01832
• “曳”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[4], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. drag, pull

(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

• Go-on: えい (ei)^{←えい (ei, historical)←𛀁い (yei, ancient)}
• Kan-on: えい (ei)^{←えい (ei, historical)←𛀁い (yei, ancient)}
• Kun: ひき (hiki, 曳)、ひく (hiku, 曳く)

Used in Old Japanese as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨ye⟩.

From Middle Chinese 曳 (MC yejH).

• IPA^(key): [e̞ː]

曳(えい) • (ei) 

1. drag; pull

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曳 (eum 예 (ye))

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曳: Hán Nôm readings: dấy

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