撤

See also 撒

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 徹 (彳 removed from phonetic) – to remove by hand.

Han character

撤 (radical 64 手+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手卜月大 (QYBK), four-corner 5804₀)

1. omit
2. remove
3. withdraw

Related characters

• 徹 轍

References

• KangXi: page 455, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12726
• Dae Jaweon: page 804, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1962, character 3
• Unihan data for U+64A4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

撤 (Yale chit3)

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Japanese

Kanji

撤 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: てつ (tetsu)
• Kun: すてる (suteru), ひらく (hiraku)

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Korean

Hanja

撤 (hangeul 철, revised cheol, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏl, Yale chel)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

撤 (pinyin chè (che4), fá (fa2), Wade-Giles ch'e⁴, fa²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

撤 (triệt, trẹt, trê, trệt, trịt)