掇

掇 U+6387, 掇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6387 ← 掆 [U+6386] CJK Unified Ideographs 授 → [U+6388]

Translingual

Han character

掇 (radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手水水水 (QEEE), four-corner 5704₇, composition ⿰扌叕)

References

• KangXi: page 436, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12241
• Dae Jaweon: page 786, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1909, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6387

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		掇
alternative forms		敠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蝃	*tɯːds, *tjod
欼	*sʰrɯʔ
綴	*tods, *tod
醊	*tods, *tod
畷	*tods, *tod
啜	*tods, *djods, *tod, *tʰjod, *djod
餟	*tods, *tod
腏	*tods, *toːd, *tod
錣	*tods, *rtoːd
輟	*tods, *tod
娺	*tul, *rtoːd
窡	*rtoːd, *rtoːd
鵽	*rtoːd, *rtoːd, *toːd
掇	*toːd, *tod
剟	*toːd, *tod
裰	*toːd
敠	*toːd, *sʰlod
惙	*tod
罬	*tod, *ktod
叕	*tod
歠	*tʰjod
逫	*tud

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *toːd, *tod): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 叕 (OC *tod).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duō (duo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyut³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: duō
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛ
    • Wade–Giles: to1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duo
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duo
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /twɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyut³
    • Yale: jyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: jud³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃyːt̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: /tuɑt̚/, /ʈˠiuᴇt̚/

Rime
Character	掇	掇
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	末 (64)	薛 (84)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	Chongniu III
Fanqie	丁括切	陟劣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuɑt̚/	/ʈˠiuᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tʷɑt̚/	/ʈʷᵚiet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tuɑt̚/	/ȶiuæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/twat̚/	/ʈwiat̚/
Li Rong	/tuɑt̚/	/ȶjuɛt̚/
Wang Li	/tuɑt̚/	/ȶĭuɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/tuɑt̚/	/ȶi̯wɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	duo	zhuo

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*t<r>ot/, /*tˤot/

  (Zhengzhang): /*toːd/, /*tod/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	掇	掇
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	duó	duó
Middle Chinese	‹ trjwet ›	‹ twat ›
Old Chinese	/*t<r>ot/	/*tˁot/
English	pick, gather	pick, gather
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	掇	掇
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17794	17810
Phonetic component	叕	叕
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	掇	輟
Old Chinese	/*toːd/	/*tod/

Definitions

掇

1. to collect; to gather up; to pick up
2. to pluck (flower); to carry
3. to stir up (trouble, anger, etc.)
4. to select; to choose
5. to get; to obtain

Compounds

• 喝掇
• 抄掇
• 拈掇
• 拾掇 (shíduo)
• 掂掇 (diānduo)
• 掇刀 (Duōdāo)
• 掇坐
• 掇弄

• 掇拾
• 掇東掇西／掇东掇西
• 掇畫／掇画
• 掇肩
• 掇臀捧屁
• 掇芹
• 掇蜂譖子／掇蜂谮子
• 掇轉／掇转

• 掇送
• 掇遺／掇遗
• 掇那
• 掇青拾紫
• 提掇
• 撟掇／挢掇
• 攛掇／撺掇 (cuānduō)
• 領掇／领掇

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Japanese

Kanji

掇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. collect
2. gather up
3. pick up

Readings

• On (unclassified): たつ (tatsu), たち (tachi), てつ (tetsu), てち (techi), せつ (setsu), せち (sechi)
• Kun: ひろう (hirou)

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Korean

Hanja

掇 • (cheol) (hangeul 철, revised cheol, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏl, Yale chel)

1. pick up
2. gather up

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Vietnamese

Han character

掇 (suốt, truyết, tuốt, xuyết)

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References

• Nom Foundation