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Translingual
Han character
掰 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹手金竹手 (HQCHQ) or 手金竹手 (QCHQ), four-corner 22550, composition ⿲手分手)
- (Cantonese) to tear, to rip
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 440, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12310
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1890, character 2
- Unihan data for U+63B0
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 嬖
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*peːɡs
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| 薜
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*beːɡs, *preːɡ
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| 鐾
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*beːɡs
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| 臂
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*peɡs
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| 譬
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*pʰeɡs
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| 避
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*beɡs
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| 檗
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*preːɡ
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| 擘
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*preːɡ
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| 糪
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*preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
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| 掰
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*preːɡ
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| 繴
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*breːɡ, *peːɡ
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| 辟
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*peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
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| 璧
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*peɡ
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| 鐴
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*peɡ
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| 躄
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*peɡ
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| 襞
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*peɡ
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| 僻
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*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
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| 癖
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*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
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| 廦
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*pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
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| 擗
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*beɡ
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| 躃
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*beɡ
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| 闢
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*beɡ
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| 壁
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*peːɡ
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| 鼊
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*peːɡ
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| 霹
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*pʰeːɡ
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| 劈
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*pʰeːɡ
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| 澼
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*pʰeːɡ
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| 憵
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*pʰeːɡ
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| 甓
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*beːɡ
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| 鷿
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*beːɡ
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| 幦
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*mbeːɡ
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Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 手 + 分 + 手, separation between two hands. A character of very recent creation.[1]
Etymology
bāi is the colloquial reading of 擘 (bò).[1]
Pronunciation
Note: póe - written also as 掱.
Note: 7paq - usually not connected to the glyph
掰 in urban Shanghainese. see instead
擘.
| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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掰
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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672
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Phonetic
component
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辟
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Rime
group
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錫
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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檗
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Old
Chinese
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/*preːɡ/
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| Notes
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擘今字
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Definitions
掰
- to bend or break apart with both hands; to adjust
- 掰後視鏡／掰后视镜 ― bāi hòushìjìng ― to adjust the rear-view mirror
- (figurative, colloquial) to talk nonsense; to chatter idly
- (figurative, colloquial) to break up; to end a relationship
Synonyms
- (to break apart with both hands): (literary, or dialectal) 擘 (bò)
- (to talk nonsense):
Compounds
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 David Branner, A Neutral Transcription System for Teaching Medieval Chinese, T ̔ang Studies 17 (1999), p. 110.
Vietnamese
Han character
掰: Hán Nôm readings: bài
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