搣

Translingual

Han character

搣 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 手戈竹火 (QIHF) or 難手戈竹火 (XQIHF), four-corner 5305₀, composition ⿰扌烕)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 447, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12495
• Dae Jaweon: page 798, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1930, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6423

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		搣
alternative forms		覓／觅 Hakka

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
滅	*med
搣	*med
烕	*hmed
戌	*smid
珬	*smid
銊	*smid

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): miè (mie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): mie¹ / mie³

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mit¹ / mit⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): met

  (Meixian, Guangdong): mêd⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miè
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miè
    • Wade–Giles: mieh⁴
    • Yale: myè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mieh
    • Palladius: ме (me)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛ⁵¹/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: mie¹ / mie³
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: mie / mie
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miɛ⁵⁵/, /miɛ⁵³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mit¹ / mit⁶
    • Yale: mīt / miht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mit⁷ / mit⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mid¹ / mid⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːt̚⁵/, /miːt̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: met
    • Hakka Romanization System: med`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: med⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /met̚²/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: mêd⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /mɛt̚¹/

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• Middle Chinese: mjiet

Rime
Character	搣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	薛 (81)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	亡列切
Baxter	mjiet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/mjæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miat̚/
Li Rong	/miɛt̚/
Wang Li	/mĭɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mit6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*med/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	搣
Reading #	1/1
No.	13943
Phonetic component	戌
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	滅
Old Chinese	/*med/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 搣

1. to uproot
2. to massage
3. to snap one's fingers
4. (Cantonese, Sichuanese) to break apart with the fingers

   搣開／搣开 [Cantonese]  ―  mit¹ hoi¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to tear open

5. (Cantonese) to peel

   搣橙 [Cantonese]  ―  mit¹ caang^4-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to peel an orange

6. (Hakka) to do; to make

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 撕 (“to tear”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		撕, 扯
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	撕
	Harbin	撕巴
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	撕
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	撕
Cantonese	Guangzhou	搣, 撕
	Hong Kong	搣, 撕
	Dongguan	搣
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	撕, 搣
Gan	Pingxiang	撕
Huizhou	Jixi	撕
Jin	Xinzhou	撕掐
Northern Min	Jian'ou	撕
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	撕
Southern Min	Xiamen	拆, 剺
	Quanzhou	拆, 剺
	Zhangzhou	拆, 剺
	Taipei	拆, 裂
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	剺
	Kaohsiung	拆, 剺, 裂
	Yilan	拆, 裂, 剺
	Changhua (Lukang)	拆, 剺
	Taichung	剺
	Tainan	拆, 裂, 剺
	Hsinchu	裂
	Kinmen	拆, 剺
	Penghu (Magong)	拆, 剺
	Manila (Hokkien)	拆
	Chaozhou	剺
	Shantou	剺
	Haifeng	剺
	Leizhou	𠠏, 撕
Wu	Shanghai	扯
	Shanghai (Chongming)	扯
	Suzhou	㧸
	Wuxi	㧸

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01371
• “搣”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 搣 (dạt, giạt)

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

References

• Nom Foundation