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擒

擒

Translingual

Han character

擒 (radical 64 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手人卜月 (QOYB), four-corner 58027, composition ⿰扌禽)

References

  • KangXi: page 458, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12816
  • Dae Jaweon: page 807, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1961, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+64D2

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 擒
alt. forms 㩒

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 擒
Large seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (今) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
貪 *kʰluːm'
嗿 *l̥ʰuːmʔ
僋 *l̥ʰuːms, *luːms
酓 *qʰɯːm, *qlamʔ, *qlɯːms
馠 *qʰɯːm
谽 *qʰɯːm
唅 *qʰɯːm, *ɡɯːms
含 *ɡɯːm
肣 *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
頷 *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
筨 *ɡɯːm
梒 *ɡɯːm
鋡 *ɡɯːm
莟 *ɡɯːmʔ, *ɡɯːms
琀 *ɡɯːms
浛 *ɡɯːms
盦 *qɯːm, *qaːb
韽 *qɯːm, *qrɯːms
玪 *krɯːm
妗 *qʰrɯːm, *kʰjam, *qʰlɯːm, *ɡrɯms
欦 *qʰrɯːmʔ, *qʰram, *kʰlam, *kʰlamʔ, *qʰlɯːm
黔 *ɡram, *ɡrɯm
鈐 *ɡram
鳹 *ɡram
雂 *ɡram, *ɡrɯm
念 *nɯːms
梣 *sɡɯm, *sɡrɯm
枔 *sɢrɯm
岑 *sɡrɯm
笒 *sɡrɯm, *ɡrɯms
涔 *sɡrɯm
侺 *ɡjɯms
今 *krɯm
黅 *krɯm
衿 *krɯm
衾 *kʰrɯm
坅 *kʰrɯmʔ
搇 *kʰrɯms
琴 *ɡrɯm
禽 *ɡrɯm
芩 *ɡrɯm
庈 *ɡrɯm
耹 *ɡrɯm
靲 *ɡrɯm
擒 *ɡrɯm
檎 *ɡrɯm
紟 *ɡrɯms
吟 *ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms
訡 *ŋɡrɯm
廞 *qʰrɯm, *qʰrɯmʔ
陰 *qrɯm
霠 *qrɯm
飲 *qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms
蔭 *qrɯms
廕 *qrɯms
矜 *ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡrɯm) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 禽 ‎(OC *ɡrɯm).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 擒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 侵 (140)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 巨金切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡˠiɪm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡᵚim/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /gjim/
Li
Rong		 /ɡjəm/
Wang
Li		 /ɡĭĕm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qín
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 擒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qín
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gim ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.ɢ(r)[ə]m/
English catch

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 擒
Reading # 1/1
No. 6613
Phonetic
component		 今
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 琴
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡrɯm/
Notes 同捦，禽轉註字

Definitions

擒

  1. to catch; to capture; to seize; to arrest
  2. to hold; to grasp

Compounds

  • 一網成擒／一网成擒
  • 一舉成擒／一举成擒
  • 七擒七縱／七擒七纵
  • 伏虎擒龍／伏虎擒龙
  • 就擒 (jiùqín)
  • 成擒
  • 手到擒來／手到擒来
  • 捉虎擒蛟
  • 擒伏
  • 擒奸摘伏
  • 擒姦擿伏／擒奸擿伏
  • 擒姦討暴／擒奸讨暴
  • 擒抱
  • 擒拿
  • 擒捉
  • 擒服
  • 擒獲／擒获 (qínhuò)
  • 擒盜／擒盗
  • 擒縱／擒纵
  • 擒虎拿蛟
  • 擒賊擒王／擒贼擒王
  • 擒賊擒首／擒贼擒首
  • 擒龍縛虎／擒龙缚虎
  • 束手就擒
  • 欲擒故縱／欲擒故纵
  • 生擒 (shēngqín)
  • 生擒活拿
  • 生擒活捉 (shēngqín huózhuō)
  • 韓擒虎／韩擒虎
  • 餓虎擒羊／饿虎擒羊

Japanese

Kanji

擒

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Originally a compound of 取り ‎(tori, “taking, capturing”, the 連用形 ‎(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 取る toru, “to take, to capture”) +‎ 子 ‎(ko, “child; small thing”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

擒 ‎(hiragana とりこ, romaji toriko)

  1. prisoner, captive, slave

Usage notes

Also used metaphorically, such as 恋の擒 ‎(koi no toriko, literally “love's slave”).

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

擒 • ‎(geum) (hangeul 금, revised geum, McCune-Reischauer kŭm, Yale kum)

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Vietnamese

Han character

擒 (cầm)

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