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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手口卜人 (QRYO), four-corner 56081, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 433, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12136
  • Dae Jaweon: page 782, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1882, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6349

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsoɡs, *ʔsoɡ
*sʰaːwɢ
*ʔsoːɡ
*sʰroːɡ, *sʰruɡ
*zroːɡ
*zroːɡ
*zroːɡ
*sʰoːɡ, *sʰoɡ
*sʰruɡ
*ʔsoɡ
*sʰoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsoːɡ) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *ʔsoɡs, *ʔsoɡ).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂuo⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂuo²⁴/
/t͡suo²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡suo²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂuə²¹³/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂua⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂuo²⁴/
Xi'an /p͡fo²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂu⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂuə¹³/
Lanzhou /p͡fə¹³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂuɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡suo²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡so³¹/
Guiyang /t͡so²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂo³¹/
Nanjing /t͡soʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂuɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡suaʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡suʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡suaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡soʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡soʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡soʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡so⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡so²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡so²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sɔʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sok̚¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sok̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sok̚⁵/
Nanning /t͡sɔk̚³³/
Hong Kong /t͡suk̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sɔk̚³²/
/t͡sʰiɔk̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰok̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡sok̚⁵/
/t͡sak̚⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (18)
Final () (10)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ʃˠʌk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈ͡ʂᵚɔk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ʃɔk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈ͡ʂaɨwk̚/
Li
Rong
/t͡ʃɔk̚/
Wang
Li
/t͡ʃɔk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʈ͡ʂɔk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhuo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhuō
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsræwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ts](ˤ)rok/
English grasp (v.)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 17917
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsoːɡ/

Definitions

  1. to grasp; to hold; to clutch
  2. to catch; to capture
    他們 [MSC, trad.]
    他们 [MSC, simp.]
    Tāmen zhuōdàole jǐ tiáo yú. [Pinyin]
    They caught several fish.
  3. to tease; to play tricks on

Compounds

  • 不可捉摸
  • 代人捉刀
  • 借茶活捉
  • 勾捉
  • 十捉九著
  • 吐哺捉髮吐哺捉发
  • 密捉
  • 成雙捉對成双捉对
  • 把捉 (bǎzhuō)
  • 拿雲捉月拿云捉月
  • 挾人捉將挟人捉将
  • 捉事人
  • 捉住
  • 捉冷眼
  • 捉刀
  • 捉刀人
  • 捉大頭捉大头
  • 捉奸捉雙捉奸捉双
  • 捉奸見床捉奸见床
  • 捉奸見雙捉奸见双
  • 捉姦捉奸 (zhuōjiān)
  • 捉將挾人捉将挟人
  • 捉對捉对
  • 捉弄 (zhuōnòng)
  • 捉影捕風捉影捕风
  • 捉急
  • 捉手
  • 捉拿 (zhuōná)
  • 捉搦歌
  • 捉摸 (zhuōmō)
  • 捉摸不定
  • 捉放曹
  • 捉敗捉败
  • 捉月
  • 捉班做勢捉班做势
  • 捉生
  • 捉生替死
  • 捉盲盲
  • 捉空
  • 捉脈捉脉
  • 捉腳不住捉脚不住
  • 捉腳步捉脚步
  • 捉虎擒蛟
  • 捉襟肘見捉襟肘见
  • 捉襟見肘捉襟见肘 (zhuōjīnxiànzhǒu)
  • 捉身不住
  • 捉迷藏 (zhuōmícáng)
  • 捉雞罵狗捉鸡骂狗
  • 捉頭捉头
  • 捉顫捉颤
  • 捉風捕影捉风捕影
  • 捉髮捉发
  • 捉鼠拿貓捉鼠拿猫
  • 捉鼻
  • 捕捉 (bǔzhuō)
  • 捕捉畋獵捕捉畋猎
  • 捕風捉影捕风捉影 (bǔ fēng zhuō yǐng)
  • 擒捉
  • 收捉
  • 水中捉月
  • 活捉 (huózhuō)
  • 活捉王魁
  • 甕中捉鱉甕中捉鳖
  • 生擒活捉 (shēngqín huózhuō)
  • 緝捉缉捉
  • 賊喊捉賊贼喊捉贼
  • 除紅捉綠除红捉绿
  • 難以捉摸难以捉摸
  • 難捉鼻难捉鼻
  • 馬捉老鼠马捉老鼠

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(chak) (hangeul , revised chak, McCune-Reischauer ch'ak, Yale chak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tróc, trốc, choắt, chộp, xóc, xốc)

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