捫

See also: 扪

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

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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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mén (men²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mun⁴

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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/

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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

(deprecated template usage) 捫

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Japanese

Kanji

捫

(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)

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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