𤆬

Translingual

Han character

𤆬 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹山火 (HUF), composition ⿱毛灬)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 668, character 3
• Unihan data for U+241AC

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		𤆬
alternative forms		導／导 曳 帶／带 𡥘 Teochew 娶 chiefly “to marry”

Glyph origin

Created for Hokkien. Ngô͘ Siú-lé ((deprecated template usage) 吳守禮) suggests that it is an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 毛 (“feathers (representing the feathers of a mother hen)”) + 灬 (“four dots (representing four chicks)”) — a mother hen leading and protecting four chicks under her feathers.

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuā (chua¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhōa

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cua⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chuā
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chua
    • Wade–Giles: chʻua¹
    • Yale: chwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chua
    • Palladius: чуа (čua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mou⁴
    • Yale: mòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhōa
    • Tâi-lô: tshuā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhoa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰua²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰua⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰua²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰua³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰua³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cua⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshuā
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰua¹¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 𤆬 (Southern Min, Puxian Min)

1. to lead; to guide

   • 耶和華行佇𪜶的頭前，日時佇雲柱中𤆬𪜶的路，暝時佇火柱中光照𪜶；予𪜶日暝攏通行。 [Hokkien, trad.]
     耶和华行伫𪜶的头前，日时伫云柱中𤆬𪜶的路，暝时伫火柱中光照𪜶；予𪜶日暝拢通行。 [Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 巴克禮譯本 (Barclay Amoy Romanized Bible), 出埃及記 (Exodus) 13:21

     Iâ-hô-hoa kiâⁿ tī in ê thâu-chêng, ji̍t--sî tī hûn-thiāu-tiong chhōa in ê lō͘, mî--sî tī hé-thiāu-tiong kng-chiò in; hō͘ in ji̍t-mî lóng thang kiâⁿ. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.

2. (of a man) to marry; to take a wife

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3. to take care of; to bring up; to nurture

   𤆬囡仔 [Hokkien]  ―  chhōa gín-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to take care of a child; to babysit

4. to kidnap

Usage notes

• In Mandarin, this word is only used in names, such as 𤆬治 (chhōa-tī in Min Nan, homophone of 𤆬弟, "to lead to a brother"), given to girls to lead to the birth of a son.

References

• “Entry #13546”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
• “(#)”, in 臺灣閩南語按呢寫‎^[1], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2013.
• 劉建仁 (2011 February 27) “帶路雞（ts‘ua⊦-lɔ⊦-ke ）──（台灣習俗之一）”, in 台灣話的語源與理據‎^[2] (in Chinese), retrieved 2019-05-26