拈

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See also: 撚
拈 U+62C8, 拈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62C8
← 拇
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 拉 →

Translingual

Han character

拈 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手卜口 (QYR), four-corner 51060, composition ⿰扌占)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 424, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11945
  • Dae Jaweon: page 773, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1851, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+62C8

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 拈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 拈
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (占) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
頕 *taːm
煔 *ɦlaːm, *hljems, *hl'eːms
炶 *ɦlaːm
詀 *rteːm, *rdeːms, *teːm, *tʰjeb
站 *rteːms
檆 *sreːm
黏 *nem
粘 *nem
枮 *slem, *ʔl'ɯm
霑 *tem
沾 *tem, *teːms, *tʰeːm
覘 *tems, *tʰem
鉆 *tʰem, *ɡrem, *tʰeːb
占 *ʔljem, *tjems
颭 *tjemʔ
佔 *tjems, *teːm
苫 *hljem, *hljems
痁 *hljem, *teːms
蛅 *njem
阽 *lem
敁 *teːm
掂 *tiːm
點 *teːmʔ
玷 *teːmʔ, *teːms
店 *tiːms
坫 *tiːms, *tim
黇 *tʰeːm
扂 *deːmʔ
拈 *neːm
鮎 *neːm
砧 *ʔl'ɯm
笘 *teːb
跕 *teːb, *tʰeːb
貼 *tʰeːb
帖 *tʰeːb
怗 *tʰeːb
呫 *tʰeːb

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 拈
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 添 (157)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 奴兼切
Baxter nem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/nem/
Pan
Wuyun 		/nem/
Shao
Rongfen 		/nɛm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/nɛm/
Li
Rong 		/nem/
Wang
Li 		/niem/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/niem/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		nián
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		nim4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 拈
Reading # 1/1
No. 16732
Phonetic
component 		占
Rime
group 		談
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		鮎
Old
Chinese 		/*neːm/

Definitions

拈

  1. pick up with fingers or draw lots

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 拈 – see 捻 (“to twist with fingers”).
(This character is a variant form of 捻).

Compounds

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 拈 – see 掂 (“to weigh in the hand”).
(This character is a variant form of 掂).

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

拈

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. to twist
    Synonyms: 捻, 撚

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

拈 • (nyeom>yeom) (hangeul 념>염, revised nyeom>yeom, McCune–Reischauer nyŏm>yŏm, Yale nyem>yem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

拈: Hán Nôm readings: chêm, niêm, chiêm, chớm, niếm, nắm

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