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捫

捫

See also: 扪

Translingual

Han character

捫 (radical 64 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手日弓 (QAN), four-corner 5702₀, composition ⿰扌門)

stoke, pat, feel by hand, grope

References

KangXi: page 435, character 5

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12197

Dae Jaweon: page 784, character 22

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1908, character 3

Unihan data for U+636B

Chinese

trad.		捫
simp.		扪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (門) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
蔄	roːs, mruːns
闅	min, mrɯn, *mɯn
閩	mrɯn, mɯn
蕄	mɯːŋ, mrɯːŋ
門	*mɯːn
捫	*mɯːn
悶	*mɯːns
聞	mɯn, mɯns
閿	*mɯn
問	*mɯns

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): mén (men²)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mun⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: mén
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄣˊ
  - Wade-Giles: mên²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: men
  - IPA ^(key): /mən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mun⁴
  - Yale: mùhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mun⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /muːn²¹/

Middle Chinese: /muən/▼

Rime
Character	捫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫奔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muən/
Pan Wuyun	/muon/
Shao Rongfen	/muən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwən/
Li Rong	/muən/
Wang Li	/muən/
Bernard Karlgren	/muən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mén

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[m]ˤ[ə][n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*mɯːn/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	捫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mén
Middle Chinese	‹ mwon ›
Old Chinese	/*[m]ˤ[ə][n]/
English	hold (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	捫
Reading #	1/1
No.	8961
Phonetic component	門
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	門
Old Chinese	/*mɯːn/

Definitions

捫

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Japanese

Kanji

捫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: もん (mon)

Kan’on: ぼん (bon)

Kun: なでる (naderu), とる (toru), ひねる (hineru)

Korean

Hanja

捫 • ‎(mun) (hangeul 문, revised mun, McCune-Reischauer mun, Yale mun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

Hán Việt: môn

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References

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