揠

Translingual

Han character

揠 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手尸日女 (QSAV), four-corner 5101₄, composition ⿰扌匽)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 443, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12363
• Dae Jaweon: page 794, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1913, character 4
• Unihan data for U+63E0

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Chinese

trad.		揠
simp. #		揠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 揠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
堰	*qrens, *qanʔ, *qans
躽	*qrens, *qeːnʔ
宴	*qeːnʔ, *qeːns
蝘	*qeːnʔ, *qanʔ
偃	*qanʔ
郾	*qanʔ, *qans
鶠	*qanʔ
褗	*qanʔ, *qans
匽	*qanʔ
鼴	*qanʔ
鰋	*qanʔ
揠	*qreːd

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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 揠

1. to pull up
2. to promote

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Japanese

Kanji

揠

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to pull up
2. to eradicate

Readings

• On (unclassified): さつ (satsu), あつ (atsu)
• Kun: ぬく (nuku), ふだ (fuda)

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Korean

Hanja

揠 • (al) (hangeul 알, revised al, McCune–Reischauer al, Yale al)

1. pull out
2. extract

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 揠 (kiền, loát)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

• Nom Foundation