掇

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掇 U+6387, 掇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6387
← 掆
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 授 →

Translingual

Han character

掇 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手水水水 (QEEE), four-corner 57047, composition ⿰扌叕)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 436, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12241
  • Dae Jaweon: page 786, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1909, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6387

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 掇
alternative forms 敠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (叕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蝃 *tɯːds, *tjod
欼 *sʰrɯʔ
綴 *tods, *tod
醊 *tods, *tod
畷 *tods, *tod
啜 *tods, *djods, *tod, *tʰjod, *djod
餟 *tods, *tod
腏 *tods, *toːd, *tod
錣 *tods, *rtoːd
輟 *tods, *tod
娺 *tul, *rtoːd
窡 *rtoːd, *rtoːd
鵽 *rtoːd, *rtoːd, *toːd
掇 *toːd, *tod
剟 *toːd, *tod
裰 *toːd
敠 *toːd, *sʰlod
惙 *tod
罬 *tod, *ktod
叕 *tod
歠 *tʰjod
逫 *tud

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *toːd, *tod) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 叕 (OC *tod).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 掇 掇
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 端 (5) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 末 (64) 薛 (84)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 丁括切 陟劣切
Baxter twat trjwet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tuɑt̚/ /ʈˠiuᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tʷɑt̚/ /ʈʷᵚiet̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tuɑt̚/ /ȶiuæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/twat̚/ /ʈwiat̚/
Li
Rong 		/tuɑt̚/ /ȶjuɛt̚/
Wang
Li 		/tuɑt̚/ /ȶĭuɛt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/tuɑt̚/ /ȶi̯wɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		duo zhuo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		dyut3 zyut3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 掇 掇
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		duó duó
Middle
Chinese 		‹ trjwet › ‹ twat ›
Old
Chinese 		/*t<r>ot/ /*tˁot/
English pick, gather pick, gather

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 掇 掇
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17794 17810
Phonetic
component 		叕 叕
Rime
group 		月 月
Rime
subdivision 		3 3
Corresponding
MC rime 		掇 輟
Old
Chinese 		/*toːd/ /*tod/

Definitions

掇

  1. to collect; to gather up; to pick up
  2. to pluck (flower); to carry
  3. to stir up (trouble, anger, etc.)
  4. to select; to choose
  5. to get; to obtain

Compounds

References

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

Japanese

Kanji

掇

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. collect
  2. gather up
  3. pick up

Readings

  • On (unclassified): たつ (tatsu)、たち (tachi)、てつ (tetsu)、てち (techi)、せつ (setsu)、せち (sechi)
  • Kun: ひろう (hirō)

Korean

Hanja

掇 • (cheol) (hangeul 철, revised cheol, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏl, Yale chel)

  1. pick up
  2. gather up

Vietnamese

Han character

掇: Hán Nôm readings: suốt, truyết, tuốt, xuyết

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