硩

Translingual

Han character

硩 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手中一口 (QLMR), four-corner 5260₁, composition ⿱折石)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 831, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24227
• Dae Jaweon: page 1246, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2431, character 15
• Unihan data for U+7869

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰed, *l̥ʰeːɡ) : phonetic 折 (OC *l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed) + semantic 石 (“rock; stone”).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Definitions

硩

1. to pick
2. to smash up

Etymology 2

Cognate with Eastern Min 矺 (dáh, “to press down on”). Possibly cognate with Cantonese 矺 (zaak3, “to press down on”) and Hakka 矺 (chak, “to press down on”) (Li, 2002).

Pronunciation

Definitions

硩

1. (Southern Min) to press; to push down
2. (Southern Min) to lay a bet; to make a bet
3. (Hokkien) to suppress; to calm (fear, cough, fire, etc.)
4. (Hokkien) to give a gift in return
5. (Mainland China Hokkien) to plant seedlings (such as sugarcane, etc.)
6. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to cut the stem of a plant diagonally and insert it in the water or soil
7. (Teochew) to suppress; to stifle

Synonyms

• (to lay a bet): 下注 (xiàzhù)

See also

• 捏

Compounds

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02978
• “Query for 硩”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.