拈

See also: 撚

Translingual

Han character

拈 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手卜口 (QYR), four-corner 5106₀, composition ⿰扌占)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 424, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11945
• Dae Jaweon: page 773, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1851, character 2
• Unihan data for U+62C8

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		拈

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
頕	*taːm
煔	*ɦlaːm, *hljems, *hl'eːms
炶	*ɦlaːm
詀	*rteːm, *rdeːms, *teːm, *tʰjeb
站	*rteːms
檆	*sreːm
黏	*nem
粘	*nem
枮	*slem, *ʔl'ɯm
霑	*tem
沾	*tem, *teːms, *tʰeːm
覘	*tems, *tʰem
鉆	*tʰem, *ɡrem, *tʰeːb
占	*ʔljem, *tjems
颭	*tjemʔ
佔	*tjems, *teːm
苫	*hljem, *hljems
痁	*hljem, *teːms
蛅	*njem
阽	*lem
敁	*teːm
掂	*tiːm
點	*teːmʔ
玷	*teːmʔ, *teːms
店	*tiːms
坫	*tiːms, *tim
黇	*tʰeːm
扂	*deːmʔ
拈	*neːm
鮎	*neːm
砧	*ʔl'ɯm
笘	*teːb
跕	*teːb, *tʰeːb
貼	*tʰeːb
帖	*tʰeːb
怗	*tʰeːb
呫	*tʰeːb

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): niān, nián

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄢ, ㄋㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nim¹ / nim⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngiâm
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liam / ni

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: niān
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nian
    • Wade–Giles: nien¹
    • Yale: nyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nhian
    • Palladius: нянь (njanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛn⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nián
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nián
    • Wade–Giles: nien²
    • Yale: nyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nian
    • Palladius: нянь (njanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: nim¹ / nim⁴
    • Yale: nīm / nìhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nim¹ / nim⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: nim¹ / nim⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /niːm⁵⁵/, /niːm²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngiâm
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngiam´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngiam¹
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋi̯am²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liam / ni
    • Tâi-lô: liam / ni
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liafm, ny
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liam⁴⁴/, /nĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liam³³/, /nĩ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liam⁴⁴/, /nĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liam⁴⁴/, /nĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liam⁴⁴/, /nĩ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: nem

Rime
Character	拈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	添 (157)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	奴兼切
Baxter	nem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nem/
Pan Wuyun	/nem/
Shao Rongfen	/nɛm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nɛm/
Li Rong	/nem/
Wang Li	/niem/
Bernard Karlgren	/niem/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nián
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nim4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*neːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	拈
Reading #	1/1
No.	16732
Phonetic component	占
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	鮎
Old Chinese	/*neːm/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 拈

1. to nip; to grasp with the fingers

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 拈 – see 捻 (“to twist with fingers”). (This character is a variant form of 捻).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 拈 – see 掂 (“to weigh in the hand”). (This character is a variant form of 掂).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01536

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Japanese

Kanji

拈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ねん (nen)
• Kan-on: でん (den)
• Kun: ひねる (hineru, 拈る); つまむ (tsumamu)

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Korean

Hanja

拈 • (nyeom>yeom) (hangeul 념>염, revised nyeom>yeom, McCune–Reischauer nyŏm>yŏm, Yale nyem>yem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 拈 (chêm, niêm, chiêm, chớm)

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