揉

Translingual

Han character

揉 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手弓竹木 (QNHD), four-corner 5709₄, composition ⿰扌柔)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 441, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12332
• Dae Jaweon: page 792, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1926, character 10
• Unihan data for U+63C9

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Chinese

trad.		揉
simp. #		揉

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
堥	*muː, *mu
蓩	*muːʔ, *moːɡ
猱	*ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us
茅	*mruː
罞	*mruː, *muːŋ
蝥	*mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs
鶜	*mruː
瞀	*moːɡs, *mroːɡ
愗	*moːɡs
袤	*mus
雺	*mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs
懋	*mus
楙	*mus
矛	*mu
蟊	*mu
髳	*mu, *muːŋ
鍪	*mu
鞪	*mu, *moːɡ
糅	*ml'us
腬	*ml'us, *mlju
柔	*mlju
揉	*mju
蹂	*mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus
鍒	*mju
騥	*mju
蝚	*mju
葇	*mju, *mjuʔ
鞣	*mju, *mjus
鰇	*mju
瑈	*mju
鶔	*mju
楺	*mjuʔ
煣	*mjuʔ, *mjus
輮	*mjuʔ, *mjus
韖	*mjuʔ
敄	*moʔ, *mos
務	*moɡs
鶩	*moɡs, *moːɡ
騖	*moɡs
婺	*moɡs
霚	*moɡs, *moːŋ
嵍	*moɡs
霧	*moɡs, *moːŋ
霿	*moːŋ, *moːŋs
楘	*moːɡ

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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 揉

1. to knead; to rub; to massage
2. to crush by hand

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

揉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: にゅう (nyū)^{←にう (niu, historical)}
• Kan-on: じゅう (jū)^{←じう (ziu, historical)}
• Kun: もむ (momu, 揉む); もめる (momeru, 揉める)

Derived terms

• 揉(も)み上(あ)げ (momiage)

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Korean

Hanja

揉 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 揉 (nhu)

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References

• Nôm Foundation