拎

拎	U+62CE, 拎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62CE

← 拍
[U+62CD]

CJK Unified Ideographs

拏 →
[U+62CF]

Translingual

Han character

拎 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手人戈戈 (QOII), four-corner 5803₇, composition ⿰扌令)

References

KangXi: page 425, character 8

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11953

Dae Jaweon: page 773, character 13

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1855, character 5

Unihan data for U+62CE

Chinese

trad.		拎
simp. ^#		拎
alternative forms		㩕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (令) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
令	ren, reŋ, reŋs, reːŋ, *reːŋs
怜	riːn, reːŋ
零	riːŋ, reːŋ, *reːŋs
魿	ɡriŋ, reːŋ
命	*mreŋs
冷	raːŋʔ, reːŋ, *reːŋʔ
跉	reŋ, reːŋ
嶺	*reŋʔ
領	*reŋʔ
阾	reŋʔ, reːŋ
柃	reŋʔ, reːŋ
袊	*reŋʔ
詅	reŋs, reːŋ
旍	*ʔsleŋ
舲	*reːŋ
齡	*reːŋ
囹	*reːŋ
鴒	*reːŋ
蛉	*reːŋ
鈴	*reːŋ
苓	*reːŋ
伶	*reːŋ
泠	*reːŋ
瓴	*reːŋ
拎	*reːŋ
刢	*reːŋ
玲	*reːŋ
聆	*reːŋ
竛	*reːŋ
軨	*reːŋ
笭	reːŋ, reːŋʔ
翎	*reːŋ
閝	*reːŋ
鹷	*reːŋ
昤	*reːŋ
駖	*reːŋ
彾	*reːŋ
呤	*reːŋ
狑	*reːŋ
秢	*reːŋ
岭	*reːŋ
紷	*reːŋ
砱	*reːŋ
羚	*reːŋ
姈	*reːŋ
蕶	*reːŋ
澪	*reːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *reːŋ) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 令 (OC *ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): līn, līng (lin¹, ling¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣ, ㄌㄧㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ling¹, ning¹, ling⁴
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): lêng
(Teochew, Peng'im): lêng⁵
Wu (Wiktionary): 'lin (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: līn
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lin
  - Wade–Giles: lin¹
  - Yale: līn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lhin
  - Palladius: линь (linʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan, variant in Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: līng
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ling
  - Wade–Giles: ling¹
  - Yale: līng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lhing
  - Palladius: лин (lin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /liŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ling¹, ning¹, ling⁴
  - Yale: līng, nīng, lìhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ling¹, ning¹, ling⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ling¹, ning¹, ling⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɪŋ⁵⁵/, /nɪŋ⁵⁵/, /lɪŋ²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lêng
  - Tâi-lô: lîng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: leeng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /liɪŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liɪŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪŋ¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /liɪŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪŋ²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lêng⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lêng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /leŋ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: 'lin (T1)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʔlɪɲ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /leŋ/

Rime
Character	拎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	郎丁切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/leŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/leŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/lɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/leŋ/
Wang Li	/lieŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/lieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	líng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ling⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*reːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	拎
Reading #	1/1
No.	8298
Phonetic component	令
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	靈
Old Chinese	/*reːŋ/

Definitions

拎

to lift; to carry in one's hand
我給你拎著。／我给你拎着。 ― Wǒ gěi nǐ līn zhe. ― Let me carry it for you.
(Cantonese) to take; to hold
幫我拎住個袋。 [Cantonese, trad.]
帮我拎住个袋。 [Cantonese, simp.]
bong¹ ngo⁵ ling¹ zyu⁶ go³ doi^6-2. [Jyutping]
Hold on to the bag for me.
佢拎走咗我張紙。 [Cantonese, trad.]
佢拎走咗我张纸。 [Cantonese, simp.]
keoi⁵ ling¹ zau² zo² ngo⁵ zoeng¹ zi². [Jyutping]
He took away my sheet of paper.

Synonyms

(to take):

Dialectal synonyms of 拿 (“to take; to hold”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		取
Mandarin	Beijing	拿
	Taiwan	拿
	Jinan	拿
	Zhengzhou	拿, 搦
	Xi'an	拿
	Wuhan	拿
	Chengdu	拿
	Guilin	拿
	Yangzhou	拿
	Hefei	拿
	Malaysia	拿
	Singapore	拿
Cantonese	Guangzhou	攞, 拎, 搦
	Hong Kong	攞, 拎, 搦
	Macau	拎
	Taishan	𢬿, 討
	Kaiping (Chikan)	討
	Yangjiang	捰, 拎, 摣
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	攞, 拎
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	攞
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	攞
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	攞
	Penang (Guangfu)	攞
	Singapore (Guangfu)	攞
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	搦
	Móng Cái	攞
Gan	Nanchang	拿
Hakka	Meixian	拿
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	拿
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	拿
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	拿
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	拿
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	提
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	提
	Sabah (Bao'an)	撿
	Kuching (Hepo)	撿, 拿
	Sungai Tapang, Batu Kawa (Hepo)	搦
Huizhou	Jixi	擔
Jin	Taiyuan	荷, 拿
Min Bei	Jian'ou	拿, 㨮
Min Dong	Fuzhou	拈, 掏
Min Nan	Xiamen	提
	Quanzhou	提, 掗
	Jinjiang	提, 掗
	Zhangzhou	提
	Dongshan	攑
	Taipei	提, 挈 GT
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	提
	Kaohsiung	提
	Yilan	提
	Changhua (Lukang)	提
	Taichung	提
	Tainan	提
	Hsinchu	提
	Kinmen	提, 捎
	Penghu (Magong)	提
	Penang (Hokkien)	攑, 提
	Singapore (Hokkien)	攑, 提
	Manila (Hokkien)	提, 掗
	Chaozhou	挈
	Shantou	挈
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	挈
	Jieyang	挈
	Singapore (Teochew)	挈, 攑
	Wenchang	把
	Haikou	把
	Qionghai	把
	Singapore (Hainanese)	挈
Wu	Suzhou	拿
	Ningbo	馱, 撈, 挈
	Wenzhou	朵, 抯, 揹
Xiang	Changsha	拿
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no particular region identified)

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01552
“拎”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

拎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): れい (rei), りょう (ryō)

Kun: かける (kakeru)

Vietnamese

Han character

拎: Hán Nôm readings: lanh, linh, nhạnh

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References

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