拓

拓 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手一口 (QMR), four-corner 5106₀, composition ⿰扌石)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 425, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11958
• Dae Jaweon: page 774, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1849, character 6
• Unihan data for U+62D3

• Unihan data for U+FA02

Historical forms of the character 拓
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tʰaːɡ, *tjaɡ) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 石 (OC *djaɡ).

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-t(j)ak (“upper surface, top, above, palate; to climb, lift, ascend”) (STEDT). See Burmese တက် (tak, “to climb up, get in a vehicle”) for more cognates.

拓

1. to open up; to develop; to expand
2. to stretch
3. to push open
4. a surname

拓

1. to make rubbings on something (e.g. inscriptions)

• 拓印 (tàyìn)

拓

1. Alternative form of 托 (tuō, “to support with hands; to lift”)

拓

1. (Hokkien) to shovel; to level off; to scrape
2. (Hokkien) shoveling tool; scraping tool
3. (Hokkien) to push upward or lift with the palms of the hand
4. (Hokkien) to support; to prop (with a long object)
5. (Hokkien) to uncover someone's secret or private matter
6. (Quanzhou, Xiamen and Taiwanese Hokkien) to compete; to contend for
7. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to poke with something sharp
8. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to refute; to rebut; to contend

• (to refute): 反駁／反驳 (fǎnbó)

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01533
• “拓”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

1. expand
2. open
3. pioneer

• On (unclassified): たく (taku, Jōyō)、せき (seki)
• Kun: ひらく (hiraku, 拓く)、ひろう (hirou, 拓う)
• Nanori: ひろ (hiro)、ひろし (hiroshi)

拓(たく) • (Taku) 

1. a male given name

From Middle Chinese 拓 (MC tsyek).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

拓

Wikisource

拓 (eumhun 넓힐 척 (neolpil cheok))

1. hanja form^? of 척 (“to open; to develop; to expand”)

From Middle Chinese 拓 (MC thak). Recorded as Middle Korean 탁 (thak)^訓 (Yale: thak) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

拓 (eumhun 박을 탁 (bageul tak))

1. hanja form^? of 탁 (“to make rubbings on something (e.g. inscriptions)”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

拓: Hán Nôm readings: đo, đó, đố, thác

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