搦

搦 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 手弓一一 (QNMM), four-corner 5702₇, composition ⿰扌弱)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 447, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12500
• Dae Jaweon: page 798, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1938, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6426

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

搦

1. (literary) to repress; to restrain
2. (literary) to grasp; to hold in the hand
3. (literary) to capture
4. to challenge

   搦戰／搦战  ―  nuòzhàn  ―  to challenge to battle

Nasal-stop alternant of 拎 (ning1) (Kwok et al., 2008).

搦

1. (Cantonese) to hold in the hand

   搦起塊石／搦起块石   ―  nik¹ hei² faai³ sek⁶   ―  to pick up a rock

   家姐幫我搦住個手袋。
   家姐帮我搦住个手袋。

   gaa¹ ze^2-1 bong¹ ngo⁵ nik¹ zyu⁶ go³ sau² doi^6-2.

   My elder sister is holding the handbag for me.

   • 1957, 5:17 from the start, in 鬼夜哭 ‎, 謝賢 (actor):

     呢，你同我搦減啲嘢！
     呢，你同我搦减啲嘢！

     ne², nei⁵ tung⁴ ngo⁵ nik¹ gam² di¹ je⁵!

     Hey, hold some of the stuff for me!

Cognate with Hokkien 掠 (lia̍h).

搦

1. (Eastern Min, Puxian Min) to seize; to catch

搦

1. (Hokkien) to grasp; to hold
2. (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to rub in water

   搦衫褲／搦衫裤   ―  la̍k saⁿ-khò͘   ―  rub clothes in water for washing

3. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to clean; to cleanse; to wash; to tidy up
4. (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) Classifier for handfuls of something, such as grains, sand, soil.

Possibly related to 浞 (chhio̍k).

搦

1. (Hokkien) to rub and knead (with five fingers togethers)
2. (Hokkien) to tread on; to step on; to trample on

   搦塗糜／搦涂糜   ―  lio̍k thô͘-bê   ―  tread on mud

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “搦”, in 莆仙方言大词典 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 148.
• 李如龙 , 刘福铸 , 吴华英 , 黄国城 (2019) “1939 抓 (～壮丁)”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 477.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: にゃく (nyaku)^{←にやく (nyaku, historical)}
• Kan-on: だく (daku)
• Kan’yō-on: じゃく (jaku)^{←ぢやく (dyaku, historical)}
• Kun: からめる (karameru, 搦める)、からむ (karamu, 搦む)、がらみ (garami, 搦み)

搦: Hán Nôm readings: nạch

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