奪

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See also: 夺
奪 U+596A, 奪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-596A
← 奩
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 奫 →

Translingual

Han character

奪 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 大人土戈 (KOGI), four-corner 40341, composition ⿳大隹寸)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 253, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5994
  • Dae Jaweon: page 515, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 547, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+596A

Chinese

trad. 奪
simp. 夺
alternative forms 𡙜
敓
𡜎
𡙸
𠔟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 奪
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 衣 (“clothing”) + 雀 (“bird”) + 又 (“hand”) – a hand seizing a bird from someone.

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with 脫 (OC *lˤot, “remove outer covering”) and 蛻 (OC *l̥ˤot-s, “exuviae (skin cast off during molting)”).

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • duăk - literary;
  • dŏk - vernacular.
Note:
  • toa̍t - literary;
  • toa̍h - vernacular.
Rime
Character 奪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 末 (64)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒活切
Baxter dwat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/duɑt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/dʷɑt̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/duɑt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dwat̚/
Li
Rong 		/duɑt̚/
Wang
Li 		/duɑt̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/dʱuɑt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		duó
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		dyut6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 奪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		duó
Middle
Chinese 		‹ dwat ›
Old
Chinese 		/*Cə.lˁot/
English seize

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.

Definitions

奪

  1. † to lose
  2. to seize; to take by force
    奪取／夺取  ―  duóqǔ  ―  to seize
  3. to compete for and obtain
    奪得金牌／夺得金牌  ―  duó dé jīnpái  ―  to carry off a gold medal
  4. to prevail over
    先聲奪人／先声夺人  ―  xiānshēngduórén  ―  to overawe one's opponent first by a show of strength
  5. to deprive; to cause to lose
    剝奪／剥夺  ―  bōduó  ―  to deprive; to strip
  6. (literary) to decide
    定奪／定夺  ―  dìngduó  ―  to make a decision

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

奪

  1. † name of an ancient place

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “夺”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 58.

Japanese

Kanji

奪

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. to rob; to snatch

Readings

  • Go-on: だつ (datsu, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: たつ (tatsu)
  • Kun: うばう (ubau, 奪う, Jōyō)

Korean

Hanja

奪 • (tal) (hangeul 탈, revised tal, McCune–Reischauer t'al)

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Vietnamese

Han character

奪: Hán Nôm readings: đoạt, sáo, xạo

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