捉

Translingual

Han character

捉 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手口卜人 (QRYO), four-corner 5608₁, composition ⿰扌足)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 433, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12136
• Dae Jaweon: page 782, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1882, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6349

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		捉

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
足	*ʔsoɡs, *ʔsoɡ
莡	*sʰaːwɢ
捉	*ʔsoːɡ
齪	*sʰroːɡ, *sʰruɡ
娖	*zroːɡ
浞	*zroːɡ
鋜	*zroːɡ
趗	*sʰoːɡ, *sʰoɡ
珿	*sʰruɡ
哫	*ʔsoɡ
促	*sʰoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsoːɡ) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 足 (OC *ʔsoɡs, *ʔsoɡ).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 捉

1. to grasp; to hold; to clutch
2. to catch; to capture

   他們捉到了幾條魚。 [MSC, trad.]
   他们捉到了几条鱼。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tāmen zhuōdào le jǐ tiáo yú. [Pinyin]

   They caught several fish.

   • 小雛雞圍在母雞的周圍捉虫子。 [MSC, trad.]
     小雏鸡围在母鸡的周围捉虫子。 [MSC, simp.]

     Xiǎo chújī wéi zài mǔjī de zhōuwéi zhuō chóngzi. [Pinyin]

     The baby chicks are catching insects around the hen.

3. to tease; to play tricks on

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

捉

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: そく (soku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: さく (saku)
• Kun: とらえる (toraeru, 捉える, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 把(は)捉(そく) (hasoku, “grasping”)

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Korean

Hanja

捉 • (chak) (hangeul 착, revised chak, McCune–Reischauer ch'ak, Yale chak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

捉 (tróc, trốc, choắt, chộp, xóc, xốc)

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