按

Translingual

Han character

按 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手十女 (QJV), four-corner 5304₄, composition ⿰扌安)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 429, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12038
• Dae Jaweon: page 779, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1876, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6309

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Chinese

trad.		按
simp. #		按

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
安	*qaːn
鞍	*qaːn
鞌	*qaːn
侒	*qaːn
按	*qaːns
案	*qaːns
洝	*qaːns
荌	*qaːns
晏	*qaːns, *qraːns
鴳	*qraːns
騴	*qraːns
鷃	*qraːns
頞	*qaːd
胺	*qaːd
咹	*qaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qaːns) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 安 (OC *qaːn).

Etymology

Exoactive of 安 (OC *qaːn, “be calm”), lit. "cause to be settled, calmed".

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 按

1. to push (with hands); to press

   按鈕／按钮  ―  ànniǔ  ―  to press a button

2. to put aside
3. to restrain
4. to check against
5. to make comments; to write notes
6. (Malaysia, Singapore) to withdraw (money)
7. according to; referring to; following

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

按

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: あん (an)
• Kan-on: あん (an)
• Kun: おさえる (osaeru, 按える); しらべる (shiraberu, 按べる)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
按
あん Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 按 (MC 'anH).

Affix

按(あん) • (an) 

1. push (with hands); press
2. examine; investigate

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Korean

Hanja

按 • (an, al) (hangeul 안, 알, revised an, al, McCune–Reischauer an, al, Yale an, al)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 按 (án, ấn, ướn)

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