拈

See also: 撚

拈 U+62C8, 拈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62C8 ← 拇 [U+62C7] CJK Unified Ideographs 拉 → [U+62C9]

Translingual

Han character

拈 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手卜口 (QYR), four-corner 5106₀, composition ⿰扌占)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 424, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11945
• Dae Jaweon: page 773, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1851, character 2
• Unihan data for U+62C8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		拈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 拈
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
頕	*taːm
煔	*ɦlaːm, *hljems, *hl'eːms
炶	*ɦlaːm
詀	*rteːm, *rdeːms, *teːm, *tʰjeb
站	*rteːms
檆	*sreːm
黏	*nem
粘	*nem
枮	*slem, *ʔl'ɯm
霑	*tem
沾	*tem, *teːms, *tʰeːm
覘	*tems, *tʰem
鉆	*tʰem, *ɡrem, *tʰeːb
占	*ʔljem, *tjems
颭	*tjemʔ
佔	*tjems, *teːm
苫	*hljem, *hljems
痁	*hljem, *teːms
蛅	*njem
阽	*lem
敁	*teːm
掂	*tiːm
點	*teːmʔ
玷	*teːmʔ, *teːms
店	*tiːms
坫	*tiːms, *tim
黇	*tʰeːm
扂	*deːmʔ
拈	*neːm
鮎	*neːm
砧	*ʔl'ɯm
笘	*teːb
跕	*teːb, *tʰeːb
貼	*tʰeːb
帖	*tʰeːb
怗	*tʰeːb
呫	*tʰeːb

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): niān, nián

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄢ, ㄋㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nim¹, nim⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngiâm
• Eastern Min (BUC): niĕng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liam / ni
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹gni

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: niān
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nian
    • Wade–Giles: nien¹
    • Yale: nyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nhian
    • Palladius: нянь (njanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛn⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nián
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nián
    • Wade–Giles: nien²
    • Yale: nyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nian
    • Palladius: нянь (njanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: nim¹, nim⁴
    • Yale: nīm, nìhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nim¹, nim⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: nim¹, nim⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /niːm⁵⁵/, /niːm²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngiâm
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngiam´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngiam¹
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋi̯am²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: niĕng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nˡieŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liam / ni
    • Tâi-lô: liam / ni
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liafm, ny
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liam⁴⁴/, /nĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liam³³/, /nĩ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liam⁴⁴/, /nĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liam⁴⁴/, /nĩ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liam⁴⁴/, /nĩ⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹gni
    • MiniDict: nyi^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹'nyi
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /n̠ʲi⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: nem

Rime
Character	拈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	添 (157)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	奴兼切
Baxter	nem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nem/
Pan Wuyun	/nem/
Shao Rongfen	/nɛm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nɛm/
Li Rong	/nem/
Wang Li	/niem/
Bernard Karlgren	/niem/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nián
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nim4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*neːm/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	拈
Reading #	1/1
No.	16732
Phonetic component	占
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	鮎
Old Chinese	/*neːm/

Definitions

拈

1. pick up with fingers or draw lots

Compounds

• 信手拈來／信手拈来
• 吃醋拈酸
• 弄柳拈花
• 惹草拈花
• 拈來／拈来
• 拈弄 (niānnòng)
• 拈弓搭箭
• 拈掇
• 拈相
• 拈筆／拈笔
• 拈花弄月
• 拈花微笑
• 拈花惹草 (niānhuārěcǎo)
• 拈花摘草
• 拈花摘葉／拈花摘叶
• 拈輕怕重／拈轻怕重 (niānqīngpàzhòng)
• 拈酸吃醋
• 拈針指／拈针指
• 拈頭／拈头
• 拈題分韻／拈题分韵
• 拈香
• 拈鬮／拈阄 (niānjiū)
• 搭搭拈拈
• 白拈賊／白拈贼

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 拈 – see 捻 (“to twist with fingers”). (This character is a variant form of 捻).

Compounds

• 績麻拈苧／绩麻拈苎

 

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 拈 – see 掂 (“to weigh in the hand”). (This character is a variant form of 掂).

Compounds

• 拈折
• 拈掇

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01536

Japanese

Kanji

拈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. to twist

   Synonyms: 捻, 撚

Readings

• Go-on: ねん (nen)^{←ねん (nen, historical)←ねむ (nemu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: でん (den)^{←でん (den, historical)←でむ (demu, ancient)}
• Kun: つまむ (tsumamu); ひねくる (hinekuru, 拈くる); ひねり (hineri, 拈り); ひねる (hineru, 拈る)

Compounds

• 拈(ねん)華(げ) (nenge)
• 拈(ねん)古(こ) (nenko)
• 拈(ねん)香(こう) (nenkō)
• 拈(ねん)出(しゅつ) (nenshutsu) (捻(ねん)出(しゅつ))
• 拈(ねん)提(てい) (nentei)

 

Korean

Hanja

拈 • (nyeom>yeom) (hangeul 념>염, revised nyeom>yeom, McCune–Reischauer nyŏm>yŏm, Yale nyem>yem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

拈: Hán Nôm readings: chêm, niêm, chiêm, chớm, niếm, nắm

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