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撮

撮

See also: 攝

Translingual

Han character

撮 (radical 64 手+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手日尸水 (QASE), four-corner 56047, composition ⿰扌最)

  1. little bit, small amount, pinch

References

  • KangXi: page 456, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12748
  • Dae Jaweon: page 805, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1957, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+64AE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 撮

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (取) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
陬 *ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *ʔslo
棷 *ʔsloː, *sʰloːʔ, *sloːʔ, *ʔsru
掫 *ʔsloː, *ʔsruʔ, *ʔslo
緅 *ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *slos
趣 *sʰloːʔ, *sʰlos
取 *sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ
鯫 *zloː, *zloːʔ, *sʰlo
棸 *rlu, *rluʔ, *ʔsru
鄹 *ʔsru, *zloʔ, *ljoːnʔ
郰 *ʔsru
齱 *ʔsru, *sʰroːɡ
菆 *ʔsru, *sʰros, *zloːn
箃 *ʔsru
黀 *ʔsru
驟 *zrus
最 *zloːds
襊 *sʰoːds, *sʰoːd
蕞 *zoːds
嘬 *sʰroːds
諏 *ʔslo
娵 *ʔslo
娶 *sʰloʔ, *sʰlos, *slo
聚 *zloʔ, *zlos
埾 *zlos
藂 *zloːŋ
叢 *zloːŋ
繓 *ʔsoːd
撮 *ʔsoːd, *sʰoːd

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 撮 撮
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 精 (13) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 末 (64) 末 (64)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 子括切 倉括切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡suɑt̚/ /t͡sʰuɑt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʷɑt̚/ /t͡sʰʷɑt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡suɑt̚/ /t͡sʰuɑt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡swat̚/ /t͡sʰwat̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡suɑt̚/ /t͡sʰuɑt̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡suɑt̚/ /t͡sʰuɑt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡suɑt̚/ /t͡sʰuɑt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zuo cuo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 撮
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cuō
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshwat ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tsʰ]ˤot/
English pinch; a pinch

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 撮 撮
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10671 10672
Phonetic
component		 取 取
Rime
group		 月 月
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 繓 撮
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsoːd/ /*sʰoːd/

Definitions

撮

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Japanese

Kanji

撮

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

撮 • ‎(chwal) (hangeul 촬, revised chwal, McCune-Reischauer ch'wal, Yale chwal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

撮 (toát)

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