掠

掠 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手卜口火 (QYRF), four-corner 5009₆, composition ⿰扌京)

1. rob, ransack, plunder
2. pass by

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 438, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12273
• Dae Jaweon: page 788, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1903, character 2
• Unihan data for U+63A0

• Unihan data for U+F975

Historical forms of the character 掠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·raŋs, *ɡ·raɡ) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 京 (OC *kraŋ).

See 略 (lüè, “to plunder, to pillage”)

掠

1. to rob; to loot
2. to sweep through
3. (Southern Min) to catch; to capture; to arrest
   • Late Qing/Early Republic, 《古板一世報全歌》, volume 3, 潮州 [Chaozhou]: 李萬利, page 10:

     員外見了𣱖昂々　叱声家丁人一衆　与我掠住二個人 [Teochew, trad.]
     员外见了气昂々　叱声家丁人一众　与我掠住二个人 [Teochew, simp.]

     uêng⁵ ghua⁷ gin³ liou² ki³ ngang¹ ngang¹, cêg⁴ sian¹ gê¹ dêng¹ nang⁵ zêg⁸ zêng³, e² ua² liah⁸ zu⁶ no⁶ gai⁵ nang⁵ [Peng'im]

     The master of the house was filled with rage on seeing this, and called to the group of servants: “capture two for me”

4. (Hokkien) to massage by kneading
5. (Hokkien) to estimate; to evaluate; to assess; to suppose
6. (Hokkien) to control; to manipulate; to work out (to bring about or maintain a certain result)
7. (Hokkien) Classifier for lengths in spans, or the width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the middle finger: span
8. (Hokkien) used to introduce the target of a following verb phrase
9. (Mainland China Hokkien) to mend (especially by knitting)
10. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to identify the problem area
11. (Classical Chinese) to flog; to beat

    • 趙高治斯，榜掠千餘，不勝痛，自誣服。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
      赵高治斯，榜掠千余，不胜痛，自诬服。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

      From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

      Zhào Gāo zhì Sī, bàng lüè qiān yú, bùshēng tòng, zì wū fú.

      Zhao Gao, as inquisitor, gave Li Si over a thousand flogs by the rod. Si, unable to bear the pain, false pleaded guilty.

• (span): 拃 (zhǎ)
• (used to introduce the target): 拿 (ná)

• → Proto-Tai: *C̬.lakᴰ (“to steal”)
  • Thai: ลัก (lák, “to steal”)

掠

1. (Cantonese) to obtain (money) forcefully

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

• Go-on: らく (raku)、ろう (rō)
• Kan-on: りゃく (ryaku)、りょう (ryō)
• Kun: かすめる (kasumeru, 掠める)

• 侵掠(しんりゃく) (shinryaku)
• 奪掠(だつりゃく) (datsuryaku)
• 掠奪(りゃくだつ) (ryakudatsu)
• 掠笞(りょうち) (ryōchi)

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Middle Chinese 掠

• (Tokyo) りゃく (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

掠(りゃく) • (ryaku) 

1. the sixth of the Eight Principles of Yong

• 永字八法(えいじはっぽう) (eiji happō, “the Eight Principles of Yong”)

• 側(そく) (soku, “the first of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
• 勒(ろく) (roku, “the second of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
• 努(ど) (do, “the third of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
• 趯(てき) (teki, “the fourth of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
• 策(さく) (saku, “the fifth of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
• 啄(たく) (taku, “the seventh of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
• 磔(たく) (taku, “the eighth of the Eight Principles of Yong”)

掠 (eumhun 노략질할 략 (noryakjilhal ryak), word-initial (South Korea) 노략질할 약 (noryakjilhal yak))

1. hanja form^? of ] (“rob, ransack, plunder”)
2. hanja form^? of ] (“pass by”)

掠 (eumhun 볼기칠 량 (bolgichil ryang), word-initial (South Korea) 볼기칠 양 (bolgichil yang))

1. hanja form^? of ] (“flog, beat”)

• 略

掠: Hán Nôm readings: lướt, lược, lựng

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