搴

搴

搴 U+6434, 搴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6434 ← 搳 [U+6433] CJK Unified Ideographs 搵 → [U+6435]

Translingual

Han character

搴 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十廿金手 (JTCQ), four-corner 3050₂, composition ⿱𡨄手)

1. extract
2. seize
3. pluck up

References

• KangXi: page 448, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12519
• Dae Jaweon: page 799, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1928, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6434

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		搴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 搴
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
寒	*ɡaːn
蹇	*kranʔ, *kanʔ
謇	*kranʔ
搴	*kranʔ, *kʰran
藆	*kranʔ
騫	*kʰran
褰	*kʰran
攐	*kʰran
鑳	*ɡranʔ
寋	*ɡanʔ
鶱	*qʰan

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiān (qian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hin¹, gin²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cian
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien¹
    • Yale: chyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chian
    • Palladius: цянь (cjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰjɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hin¹, gin²
    • Yale: hīn, gín
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hin¹, gin²
    • Guangdong Romanization: hin¹, gin²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiːn⁵⁵/, /kiːn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kˠiᴇn^X/

Rime
Character	搴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	仙 (79)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	九輦切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠiᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚiɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/kiænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kianX/
Li Rong	/kjɛnX/
Wang Li	/kĭɛnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯ɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gin2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kranʔ/, /*kʰran/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	搴	搴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4873	4878
Phonetic component	寒	寒
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	蹇	愆
Old Chinese	/*kranʔ/	/*kʰran/
Notes		同攓

Definitions

搴

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Compounds

搴旗 搴芳 (qiānfāng)

搴裳 搴旗取將／搴旗取将

搴旗斬馘／搴旗斩馘 斬將搴旗／斩将搴旗 (zhǎnjiàngqiānqí)

References

• “搴”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

搴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. take
2. hoist
3. pull out
4. shrink

Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken)
• Kun: とる (toru, 搴る); ぬく (nuku, 搴く)

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Vietnamese

Han character

搴: Hán Nôm readings: khiên

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