掰

Translingual

Han character

掰 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹手金竹手 (HQCHQ) or 手金竹手 (QCHQ), four-corner 2255₀, composition ⿲手分手)

1. (Cantonese) to tear, to rip

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 440, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12310
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1890, character 2
• Unihan data for U+63B0

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Chinese

trad.		掰
simp. #		掰

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
嬖	*peːɡs
薜	*beːɡs, *preːɡ
鐾	*beːɡs
臂	*peɡs
譬	*pʰeɡs
避	*beɡs
檗	*preːɡ
擘	*preːɡ
糪	*preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
掰	*preːɡ
繴	*breːɡ, *peːɡ
辟	*peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
璧	*peɡ
鐴	*peɡ
躄	*peɡ
襞	*peɡ
僻	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
癖	*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
廦	*pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
擗	*beɡ
躃	*beɡ
闢	*beɡ
壁	*peːɡ
鼊	*peːɡ
霹	*pʰeːɡ
劈	*pʰeːɡ
澼	*pʰeːɡ
憵	*pʰeːɡ
甓	*beːɡ
鷿	*beːɡ
幦	*mbeːɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 手 + 分 + 手, separation between two hands. A character of very recent^[vague] creation.

Etymology

bāi is the colloquial reading of 擘 (bò).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bāi (bai¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baai¹ / mak³ / baai²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pai / póe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bāi
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄞ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bai
    • Wade–Giles: pai¹
    • Yale: bāi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bai
    • Palladius: бай (baj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: baai¹ / mak³ / baai²
    • Yale: bāai / mak / báai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baai¹ / mak⁸ / baai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bai¹ / meg³ / bai²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːi̯⁵⁵/, /mɐk̚³/, /paːi̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pai
    • Tâi-lô: pai
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pay
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pai⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pai³³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: póe
    • Tâi-lô: pué
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poea
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pue⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Zhangzhou): /pue⁵³/

Note: póe - written also as 掱.

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*preːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	掰
Reading #	1/1
No.	672
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	檗
Old Chinese	/*preːɡ/
Notes	擘今字

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 掰

1. to break apart with both hands
2. to bend
3. to argue
4. to break up, to end a relationship

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 掰 (bài)

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