Definify.com
Definition 2025
丮
丮
| ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
See also: 丸
Translingual
Han character
丮 (radical 2 丨+3, 4 strokes, cangjie input 弓手 (NQ), four-corner 17510, composition ⿹⺄⿻二丨)
- to catch
Derived characters
Descendants
- 丸 (simplification in some characters, such as 孰)
References
- KangXi: page 79, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 74
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 51, character 7
- Unihan data for U+4E2E
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
丮 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 丮
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script | |||||||||||||||||||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
|||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
|
References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Characters in the same phonetic series (丮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 丮 | *kraɡ |
| 谻 | *kraɡ, *kraɡ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˇ
- Wade-Giles: chih3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jii
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕi²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˊ
- Wade-Giles: chih2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyi
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕi³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gik1
- Yale: gīk
- Cantonese Pinyin: gik7
- IPA (key): /kɪk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 丮 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 陌 (115) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 几劇切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kˠiæk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kᵚiak̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kiak̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kiajk̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/kiɐk̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/kĭɐk̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kiɐk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
ji |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 丮 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
jǐ |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ kjæk › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[k]rak/ |
| English | grasp |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 丮 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5779 |
| Phonetic component |
丮 |
| Rime group |
鐸 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
戟 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kraɡ/ |
Definitions
丮
- to hold
References
Japanese
Kanji
丮






















