攫

攫 U+652B, 攫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-652B ← 攪 [U+652A] CJK Unified Ideographs 攬 → [U+652C]

Translingual

Han character

攫 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+20, 23 strokes, cangjie input 手月山水 (QBUE), four-corner 5604₇, composition ⿰扌矍)

1. snatch away, seize
2. catch with

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 465, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13043
• Dae Jaweon: page 813, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1991, character 10
• Unihan data for U+652B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		攫

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
钁	*kʷaɡ
攫	*kʷaɡ
矍	*kʷaɡ
躩	*kʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ
玃	*kʷaɡ
貜	*kʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ
彏	*kʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ
戄	*ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ
籰	*ɢʷaɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʷaɡ) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 矍 (OC *kʷaɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jué (jue²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fok³, gwok³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jué
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyué
    • Wade–Giles: chüeh²
    • Yale: jywé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
    • Palladius: цзюэ (czjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fok³, gwok³
    • Yale: fok, gwok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fok⁸, gwok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: fog³, guog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːk̚³/, /kʷɔːk̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: kjwak

Rime
Character	攫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	陽 (108)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居縛切
Baxter	kjwak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʉɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kiuɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kuak̚/
Li Rong	/kiuak̚/
Wang Li	/kĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kiwak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jue
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwok3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.qʷ(r)ak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷaɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	攫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jué
Middle Chinese	‹ kjwak ›
Old Chinese	/*C.qʷ(r)ak/
English	seize
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	攫
Reading #	1/1
No.	7264
Phonetic component	矍
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	玃
Old Chinese	/*kʷaɡ/

Definitions

攫

1. (of animals) to grab using claws
2. to grab; to snatch; to seize

Compounds

• 拏雲攫石／拿云攫石
• 攫住
• 攫取 (juéqǔ)
• 攫奪／攫夺 (juéduó)
• 攫戾執猛／攫戾执猛
• 攫食
• 齊人攫金／齐人攫金

 

Japanese

Kanji

攫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. abduct

Readings

• Go-on: かく (kaku)^{←くわく (kwaku, historical)}
• Kan-on: きゃく (kyaku)^{←きやく (kyaku, historical)←くゐやく (kwyaku, ancient)}
• Kun: さらう (sarau, 攫う)^{←さらふ (sarafu, 攫ふ, historical)}; つかむ (tsukamu, 攫む)

Compounds

• 攫取(かくしゅ) (kakushu)
• 一攫(いっかく)千金(せんきん) (ikkakusenkin)
• 鰻(ウナギ)攫(ツカミ) (unagitsukami)
• 鯉(こい)攫(つかみ) (koitsukami)

Korean

Hanja

攫 (eum 확 (hwak))

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Vietnamese

Han character

攫: Hán Nôm readings: quắc

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References

• Nom Foundation