按

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按 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手十女 (QJV), four-corner 5304₄, composition ⿰扌安)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 429, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12038
• Dae Jaweon: page 779, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1876, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6309

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qaːns) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 安 (OC *qaːn). The phonetic component however indicates the concept to be at ease, hence it is linked with the meaning "to restrain; to push down".

Exoactive of 安 (OC *qaːn, “be calm”), lit. "cause to be settled, calmed".

按

1. to push (with hands); to press

   按鈕／按钮  ―  ànniǔ  ―  to press a button

2. to put aside
3. to restrain
4. to check against something, chiefly a text

   按圖索驥／按图索骥  ―  àntúsuǒjì  ―  literally, "to seek a fine horse by checking against a drawing"

5. to make comments; to write notes

   Synonym: 案 (àn)

6. according to; referring to; following

   按照  ―  ànzhào  ―  according to

   按計劃行事／按计划行事  ―  àn jìhuà xíngshì  ―  to follow the plan

7. (Malaysia, Singapore) to withdraw (money)
8. (Cantonese) to mortgage

   按揭 [Cantonese]  ―  on³ kit³   ―  to mortgage

9. (Hokkien) to estimate; to evaluate; to assess; to figure; to suppose; to reckon; to plan
10. (Hokkien) to pawn; to borrow money while depositing an item as collateral from a pawnshop or someone for later payment
11. (Hokkien) from (place or time); by; since

• (to push):

• (to restrain):

• (according to):

Others:

• → Vietnamese: ấn (按, “to press”)

• “按”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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• Go-on: あん (an)
• Kan-on: あん (an)
• Kun: おさえる (osaeru, 按える)、しらべる (shiraberu, 按べる)

From Middle Chinese 按 (MC 'anH).

按(あん) • (an) 

1. push (with hands); press
2. examine; investigate

按 • (an, al) (hangeul 안, 알, revised an, al, McCune–Reischauer an, al, Yale an, al)

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按 (án)

1. Nôm form of án (“to count”).

   度𫠯保按啓

   Tò lồng bấu án khái

   Can no longer count the steps taken when going down

   𨀎𪪈開帝𱍭按鉼

   Khuốp pi khai đảy ngần án pẻng

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• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

按: Hán Nôm readings: án, ấn, ướn

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