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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹手金竹手 (HQCHQ) or 手金竹手 (QCHQ), four-corner 22550, composition手)

  1. to break off or break open something with one's hands
  2. (figuratively) to break off (a relationship)
  3. (Cantonese) to tear, to rip

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 440, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12310
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1890, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+63B0

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*peːɡs
*beːɡs, *preːɡ
*beːɡs
*peɡs
*pʰeɡs
*beɡs
*preːɡ
*preːɡ
*preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ
*preːɡ
*breːɡ, *peːɡ
*peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ
*peɡ
*peɡ
*peɡ
*peɡ
*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
*pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ
*pʰeɡ, *peːɡ
*beɡ
*beɡ
*beɡ
*peːɡ
*peːɡ
*pʰeːɡ
*pʰeːɡ
*pʰeːɡ
*pʰeːɡ
*beːɡ
鷿 *beːɡ
*mbeːɡ

Pronunciation



Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 672
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*preːɡ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to break with both hands
  2. to argue

Vietnamese

Han character

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