按

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 扌 + phonetic 安.

Han character

按 (radical 64 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手十女 (QJV), four-corner 5304₄)

1. put hand on, press down with hand

References

• KangXi: page 429, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12038
• Dae Jaweon: page 779, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1876, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6309

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Cantonese

Hanzi

按 (Yale on3, ngon3)

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Japanese

Kanji

按

Readings

• On: あん (an)
• Kun: おさえる (osaeru), しらべる (shiraberu)

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Korean

Hanja

按 (hangeul 안, 알, revised an, al, McCune-Reischauer an, al, Yale an, al)

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
按

Hanzi

按 (pinyin àn (an4), kōu (kou1), kuà (kua4), Wade-Giles an⁴, k'ou¹, k'ua⁴)

Verb

按 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin àn)

1. to push; to press

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Vietnamese

Han character

按 (án, ấn, ướn)