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Translingual
Han character
𤆬 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹山火 (HUF), composition ⿱毛灬)
Derived characters
References
Chinese
Glyph origin
Created for Hokkien. Ngô͘ Siú-lé (吳守禮) suggests that it is an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 毛 (“feathers (representing the feathers of a mother hen)”) + 灬 (“four dots (representing four chicks)”) — a mother hen leading and protecting four chicks under her feathers.
Etymology
Possibly from 曳 (OC *leds, “to drag”) (Lin, 1999; Yang, 2000; Tu, 2019) or 抴 (OC *lebs, “to pull”) (Tu, 2019).
Also compare 逝 (chōa, “path”) (Ong, 2023).
Pronunciation
Definitions
𤆬
- (Southern Min, Puxian Min) to lead; to guide
耶和華行佇𪜶的頭前,日時佇雲柱中𤆬𪜶的路,暝時佇火柱中光照𪜶;予𪜶日暝攏通行。 [Hokkien, trad.]
耶和华行伫𪜶的头前,日时伫云柱中𤆬𪜶的路,暝时伫火柱中光照𪜶;予𪜶日暝拢通行。 [Hokkien, simp.]- From: 巴克禮譯本 (Barclay Amoy Romanized Bible), 出埃及記 (Exodus) 13:21
- Iâ-hô-hoa kiâⁿ tī in ê thâu-chêng, ji̍t--sî tī hûn-thiāu-tiong chhōa in ê lō͘, mî--sî tī hé-thiāu-tiong kng-chiò in; hō͘ in ji̍t-mî lóng thang kiâⁿ. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
- And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.
Late Qing/Early Republic, 《古板白蓮花全歌》, volume 1, 潮州 [Chaozhou]: 李萬利, page 12v:
家人𡥘入到后房 [Teochew, simp.]
家人𡥘入到後房 [Teochew, trad.]- gê1 ring5 cua7 rib8 gao3 ao6 bang5 [Peng'im]
- the servant led to the rear room
- (Southern Min, chiefly Teochew, Leizhou Min) to cause; to lead someone to do something
- (Hokkien, Teochew, of a man) to marry; to take a wife
- Synonym: 娶
- Coordinate term: 嫁 (of a woman)
- (Hokkien) to take care of; to bring up; to nurture
- 𤆬囡仔 [Hokkien] ― chhōa gín-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― to take care of a child; to babysit
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to lure; to kidnap
Usage notes
- In Mandarin, this word is only used in names, such as 𤆬治 (chhōa-tī in Min Nan, homophone of 𤆬弟, "to lead to a brother"), given to girls to lead to the birth of a son.
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
帶 (“to take/bring (someone somewhere)”)
Compounds
- 引𤆬 (ín-chhōa)
- 𤆬某
- 𤆬路 (chhōa-lō͘)
- 𤆬領 / 𤆬领 (chhōa-niá)
- 𤆬頭 / 𤆬头 (chhōa-thâu)
- 相𤆬 (sio-chhōa)
- 育𤆬 (io-chhōa)
References
- “Entry #13511”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
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- 劉建仁 (2011 February 27) “帶路雞(ts‘ua⊦-lɔ⊦-ke )──(台灣習俗之一)”, in 台灣話的語源與理據 (in Chinese), retrieved 2019-05-26