噲

噲 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 口人一日 (ROMA), four-corner 6806₆, composition ⿰口會)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 211, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4407
• Dae Jaweon: page 433, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 693, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5672

Historical forms of the character 噲
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰroːbs): semantic 口 + phonetic 會 (OC *koːbs, *ɡoːbs).

噲

1. swallow down
2. mouth of birds or beasts

噲

1. (Eastern Min) alternative form of 回 (“that; then”)

噲

1. (dated in Cantonese, Hakka, still used in Teochew) alternative form of 會 / 会 (“can; will”)
   • 1894, James Dyer Ball, Readings in Cantonese Colloquial, page 2:

     你噲舉個隻手到熱頭咁高唔呢、唔噲呀。
     你哙举个只手到热头咁高唔呢、唔哙呀。

     nei⁵ wui⁵ geoi² go³ zek³ sau² dou³ jit⁶ tau^4-2 gam³ gou¹ m⁴ ni¹, m⁴ wui⁵ aa³.

     Can you reach up so high? No. (literally, Can you raise that hand to as high as the sun? cannot.)

   • (Can we date this quote?), “潮汕女孩”, 李立群 (lyrics), 徐曉穎 (music)‎performed by 徐曉穎:

     伊噲害你一輩子攏著假好人唔敢使坏
     伊哙害你一辈子拢着假好人唔敢使坏

     i¹ oi⁶ hai⁷ le² zêg⁸ buê³ ze² long² diêh⁸ gê² ho² nang⁵ m⁶ gan² sai² huai⁶

     She will cause you to pretend to be a good man and not dare play tricks all your life.

噲

1. (Teochew) Interjection used after a name for emphasis
   • 19??, 《潮州戲曲選集》, page 9:

     娘仔噲。俺今一對好鴛鴦。
     娘仔哙。俺今一对好鸳鸯。

     niê⁵ gian² oi⁶. nang² gim¹ zêg⁸ dui³ ho² uêng¹ iên¹.

     O Miss, we are indeed a good couple.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. swallow
2. gulp down
3. greedy

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: かい (kai)
• Kun: あかるい (akarui, 噲るい)、こころよい (kokoroyoi, 噲い)、すする (susuru, 噲る)、のど (nodo, 噲)

噲 • (kwae) (hangeul 쾌, revised kwae, McCune–Reischauer k'wae)

1. throat
2. refreshing

噲: Hán Nôm readings: khoái, gọi, còn, gỏi, gũi, hỏi, khoải

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