敜

敜 U+655C, 敜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-655C ← 敛 [U+655B] CJK Unified Ideographs 敝 → [U+655D]

Translingual

Han character

敜 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人心人大 (OPOK), four-corner 8834₀, composition ⿰念攵)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 472, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13244
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1467, character 10
• Unihan data for U+655C

Chinese

trad.		敜
simp. #		敜

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
淰	*rnɯːmʔ, *nɯːmʔ, *hnjɯmʔ
唸	*tɯːms, *tɯːns
埝	*tɯːms, *nɯːb
趝	*klɯːms, *n̥ʰɯːms
諗	*hnjɯmʔ
稔	*njɯːm
棯	*njɯmʔ
腍	*njɯmʔ
捻	*nɯːb
錜	*nɯːb
敜	*nɯːb
惗	*nɯːb, *sens
菍	*nɯːb, *nɯːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *nɯːb) : phonetic 念 (OC *nɯːms) + semantic 攴.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): niè (nie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nip⁶

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: niè
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: niè
    • Wade–Giles: nieh⁴
    • Yale: nyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nieh
    • Palladius: не (ne)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: nip⁶
    • Yale: nihp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nip⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: nib⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /niːp̚²/

---

• Middle Chinese: nep

Rime
Character	敜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	添 (158)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	奴協切
Baxter	nep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nep̚/
Pan Wuyun	/nep̚/
Shao Rongfen	/nɛp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nɛp̚/
Li Rong	/nep̚/
Wang Li	/niep̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/niep̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	niè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nip6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*nɯːb/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	敜
Reading #	1/1
No.	9503
Phonetic component	念
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	苶
Old Chinese	/*nɯːb/

Definitions

敜

1. ^†(Classical) to stop up

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 敜 – see 捻 (“to press”). (This character is a variant form of 捻).