擒

Translingual

Han character

擒 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手人卜月 (QOYB), four-corner 5802₇, composition ⿰扌禽)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 458, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12816
• Dae Jaweon: page 807, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1961, character 2
• Unihan data for U+64D2

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Chinese

trad.		擒
simp. #		擒
alternative forms		㩒

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 擒
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
貪	*kʰl'uːm
嗿	*l̥ʰuːmʔ
僋	*l̥ʰuːms, *luːms
酓	*qʰɯːm, *qlamʔ, *qlɯːms
馠	*qʰɯːm
谽	*qʰɯːm
唅	*qʰɯːm, *ɡɯːms
含	*ɡɯːm
肣	*ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
頷	*ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ
筨	*ɡɯːm
梒	*ɡɯːm
鋡	*ɡɯːm
莟	*ɡɯːmʔ, *ɡɯːms
琀	*ɡɯːms
浛	*ɡɯːms
盦	*qɯːm, *qaːb
韽	*qɯːm, *qrɯːms
玪	*krɯːm
妗	*qʰrɯːm, *kʰjam, *qʰlɯːm, *ɡrɯms
欦	*qʰrɯːmʔ, *qʰram, *kʰlam, *kʰlamʔ, *qʰlɯːm
黔	*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
鈐	*ɡram
鳹	*ɡram
雂	*ɡram, *ɡrɯm
念	*nɯːms
梣	*sɡɯm, *sɡrɯm
枔	*sɢrɯm
岑	*sɡrɯm
笒	*sɡrɯm, *ɡrɯms
涔	*sɡrɯm
侺	*ɡjɯms
今	*krɯm
黅	*krɯm
衿	*krɯm
衾	*kʰrɯm
坅	*kʰrɯmʔ
搇	*kʰrɯms
琴	*ɡrɯm
禽	*ɡrɯm
芩	*ɡrɯm
庈	*ɡrɯm
耹	*ɡrɯm
靲	*ɡrɯm
擒	*ɡrɯm
檎	*ɡrɯm
紟	*ɡrɯms
吟	*ŋɡrɯm, *ŋɡrɯms
訡	*ŋɡrɯm
廞	*qʰrɯm, *qʰrɯmʔ
陰	*qrɯm
霠
飲	*qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms
蔭	*qrɯms
廕	*qrɯms
矜	*ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡrɯm) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 禽 (OC *ɡrɯm).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qín (qin²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kam⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khîm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qín
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cín
    • Wade–Giles: chʻin²
    • Yale: chín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyn
    • Palladius: цинь (cinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰin³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kam⁴
    • Yale: kàhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐm²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khîm
    • Tâi-lô: khîm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qiim
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰim²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰim²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰim¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰim²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰim²³/

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• Middle Chinese: gim

Rime
Character	擒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	巨金切
Baxter	gim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡᵚim/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gjim/
Li Rong	/ɡjəm/
Wang Li	/ɡĭĕm/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qín
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kam4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.ɢ(r)[ə]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡrɯm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	擒
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qín
Middle Chinese	‹ gim ›
Old Chinese	/*C.ɢ(r)[ə]m/
English	catch
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	擒
Reading #	1/1
No.	6613
Phonetic component	今
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	琴
Old Chinese	/*ɡrɯm/
Notes	同捦，禽轉註字

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 擒

1. to catch; to capture; to seize; to arrest
2. to hold; to grasp

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Japanese

Kanji

擒

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ごん (gon)^{←ごん (gon, historical)←ごむ (gomu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: きん (kin)^{←きん (kin, historical)←きむ (kimu, ancient)}
• Kun: とらえる (toraeru, 擒える)^{←とらへる (toraferu, 擒へる, historical)}; とりこ (toriko, 擒)

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
擒
とりこ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

• 虜, 俘, 囚, 俘虜

Etymology

Originally a compound of 取り (tori, “taking, capturing”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 取る (toru), “to take, to capture”) +‎ 子 (ko, “child; small thing”).

Noun

擒(とりこ) • (toriko) 

1. a prisoner, captive, slave

Usage notes

Also used metaphorically, such as 恋の擒 (koi no toriko, literally “love's slave”).

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Korean

Hanja

擒 • (geum) (hangeul 금, revised geum, McCune–Reischauer kŭm, Yale kum)

1. catch, capture, seize, arrest

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Vietnamese

Han character

擒 (cầm)

1. to hold, to keep
2. to capture, to seize, to arrest