擒

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擒 U+64D2, 擒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-64D2
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 擓 →

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

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

Chinese

trad. 擒
simp. # 擒
alternative forms 㩒
捦
扲

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 擒
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (今) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
貪 *kʰl'uːm
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
飲 *qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms
蔭 *qrɯms
廕 *qrɯms
矜 *ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, 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) III
Fanqie 巨金切
Baxter gim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡˠiɪm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡᵚim/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/gjim/
Li
Rong 		/ɡjəm/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭĕm/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/gi̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		kam4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 擒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qín
Middle
Chinese 		‹ gim ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.ɢ(r)m/
English catch

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
  3. (Cantonese) to climb
    擒上車頂／擒上车顶   ―  kam4 soeng5 ce1 deng2   ―  to climb to the top of the car

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 爬 (“to climb”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 爬
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 爬
Taiwan 爬
Singapore 爬
Cantonese Guangzhou 擒
Hong Kong 擒, 爬
Dongguan 擒
Singapore (Guangfu) 爬
Hakka Meixian 爬
Northern Min Jian'ou 爬啦
Eastern Min Fuzhou 爬
Southern Min Xiamen 𬦰
Quanzhou 𬦰
Zhangzhou 𬦰
Tainan 𬦰, 控
Penang (Hokkien) 𬦰
Singapore (Hokkien) 𬦰
Manila (Hokkien) 𬦰
Chaozhou 𬦰
Shantou 𬦰
Singapore (Teochew) 𬦰
Haikou 爬
Singapore (Hainanese) 爬
Wu Shanghai 爬

Compounds

Japanese

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
擒
とりこ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Kanji

擒

(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”).

Pronunciation

Noun

擒(とりこ) • (toriko) 

  1. a prisoner, captive, slave

Usage notes

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

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. catch, capture, seize, arrest

Vietnamese

Han character

擒: Hán Việt readings: cầm
擒: Nôm readings: cầm

  1. chữ Hán form of cầm (“to hold, keep, capture, seize, arrest”)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Trần (2004).
  3. ^ Trần (1999).
  4. ^ Nguyễn (1974).
  5. ^ Thiều Chửu (1942).
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