掇

掇

掇 U+6387, 掇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6387 ← 掆 [U+6386] CJK Unified Ideographs 授 → [U+6388]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		掇
variant 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, *djodd
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, OC *toːd, *tod) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 叕 (OC *tod).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duō (duo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyut³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: duō
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛ
    • Wade–Giles: tuo¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duo
    • IPA ^(key): /tu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyut³
    • Yale: jyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: jud³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃyːt̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: /tuɑt̚/, /ʈˠiuᴇt̚/▼

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	Chongniu III
Fanqie	丁括切	陟劣切
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*t<r>ot/, /*tˤot/

  (Zhengzhang): /*toːd/, /*tod/

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. *[t] 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. collect, gather up, pick up

Compounds

喝掇 抄掇 拈掇 拾掇 (shíduo) 掂掇 (diānduo) 掇刀 (Duōdāo) 掇坐 掇弄

掇拾 掇東掇西／掇东掇西 掇畫／掇画 掇肩 掇臀捧屁 掇芹 掇蜂譖子／掇蜂谮子 掇轉／掇转

掇送 掇遺／掇遗 掇那 掇青拾紫 提掇 撟掇／挢掇 攛掇／撺掇 (cuānduō) 領掇／领掇

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Japanese

Kanji

掇

(uncommon “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 (hirou)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. pick up
2. gather up

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Vietnamese

Han character

掇 (suốt, truyết, tuốt, xuyết)

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References

• Nom Foundation