捫

See also: 扪

捫 U+636B, 捫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-636B ← 捪 [U+636A] CJK Unified Ideographs 捬 → [U+636C]

Translingual

Han character

捫 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手日弓 (QAN), four-corner 5702₀, composition ⿰扌門)

1. stoke, pat, feel by hand, grope

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 435, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12197
• Dae Jaweon: page 784, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1908, character 3
• Unihan data for U+636B

Chinese

trad.		捫
simp.		扪

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蔄	*roːs, *mruːns
闅	*min, *mrɯn, *mɯn
閩	*mrɯn, *mɯn
蕄	*mɯːŋ, *mrɯːŋ
門	*mɯːn
捫	*mɯːn
悶	*mɯːns
聞	*mɯn, *mɯns
閿	*mɯn
問	*mɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mɯːn) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 門 (OC *mɯːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mén (men²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mun⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bûn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mung⁵ / meng⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mén
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mén
    • Wade–Giles: mên²
    • Yale: mén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: men
    • Palladius: мэнь (mɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mun⁴
    • Yale: mùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mun⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn
    • Tâi-lô: bûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: buun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bun²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mung⁵ / meng⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mûng / mṳ̂ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muŋ⁵⁵/, /mɯŋ⁵⁵/

Note:

• mung5 - Chaozhou;
• meng5 - Chaoyang, Puning, Huilai.

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• Middle Chinese: mwon

Rime
Character	捫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫奔切
Baxter	mwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muən/
Pan Wuyun	/muon/
Shao Rongfen	/muən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwən/
Li Rong	/muən/
Wang Li	/muən/
Bernard Karlgren	/muən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mén
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mun4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[m]ˤ[ə][n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	捫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mén
Middle Chinese	‹ mwon ›
Old Chinese	/*[m]ˁ[ə][n]/
English	hold (v.)
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	捫
Reading #	1/1
No.	8961
Phonetic component	門
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	門
Old Chinese	/*mɯːn/

Definitions

捫

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Compounds

• 扣槃捫燭／扣槃扪烛
• 捫參歷井／扪参历井
• 捫心／扪心
• 捫心無愧／扪心无愧
• 捫心自問／扪心自问 (ménxīnzìwèn)
• 捫搎／扪𰓧
• 捫摸／扪摸
• 捫舌／扪舌
• 捫蝨／扪虱
• 捫蝨而言／扪虱而言
• 捫隙發罅／扪隙发罅
• 蝨空捫／虱空扪

 

Japanese

Kanji

捫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: もん (mon)
• Kan-on: ぼん (bon)
• Kun: なでる (naderu); とる (toru); ひねる (hineru)

Korean

Hanja

捫 (eum 문 (mun))

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Vietnamese

Han character

捫: Hán Nôm readings: môn

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References

• Nom Foundation