𤆬

𤆬 U+241AC, 𤆬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-241AC ← 𤆫 [U+241AB] CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B 𤆭 → [U+241AD]

Translingual

Han character

𤆬 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹山火 (HUF), composition ⿱毛灬)

Derived characters

• 𢯁, 𢉐

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 668, character 3
• Unihan data for U+241AC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		𤆬
alternative forms		𢯁 導／导 曳 帶／带 𡥘 Teochew 𢯁 導／导 曳 帶／带 𡥘 Teochew 抴 chiefly Puxian Min 娶 chiefly “to marry”

Glyph origin

Created for Hokkien. Ngô͘ Siú-lé (吳守禮) suggests that it is an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 毛 (“feathers (representing the feathers of a mother hen)”) + 灬 (“four dots (representing four chicks)”) — a mother hen leading and protecting four chicks under her feathers.

Etymology

Possibly from 曳 (OC *leds, “to drag”) (Lin, 1999; Yang, 2000; Tu, 2019) or 抴 (OC *lebs, “to pull”) (Tu, 2019).

Also compare 逝 (chōa, “path”) (Ong, 2023).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuā (chua¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄚ

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhōa

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cua⁷

  (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): cua¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chuā
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chua
    • Wade–Giles: chʻua¹
    • Yale: chwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chua
    • Palladius: чуа (čua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ä⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhōa
    • Tâi-lô: tshuā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhoa
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /t͡sʰua⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰua²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰua³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cua⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshuā
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰua¹¹/
  • (Leizhou)
    • Leizhou Pinyin: cua¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰua³⁵/

Definitions

𤆬

1. (Southern Min, Puxian Min) to lead; to guide

   • 耶和華行佇𪜶的頭前，日時佇雲柱中𤆬𪜶的路，暝時佇火柱中光照𪜶；予𪜶日暝攏通行。 [Hokkien, trad.]
     耶和华行伫𪜶的头前，日时伫云柱中𤆬𪜶的路，暝时伫火柱中光照𪜶；予𪜶日暝拢通行。 [Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 巴克禮譯本 (Barclay Amoy Romanized Bible), 出埃及記 (Exodus) 13:21

     Iâ-hô-hoa kiâⁿ tī in ê thâu-chêng, ji̍t--sî tī hûn-thiāu-tiong chhōa in ê lō͘, mî--sî tī hé-thiāu-tiong kng-chiò in; hō͘ in ji̍t-mî lóng thang kiâⁿ. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.

   • Late Qing/Early Republic, 《古板白蓮花全歌》, volume 1, 潮州 [Chaozhou]: 李萬利, page 12v:

     家人𡥘入到后房 [Teochew, simp.]
     家人𡥘入到後房 [Teochew, trad.]

     gê¹ ring⁵ cua⁷ rib⁸ gao³ ao⁶ bang⁵ [Peng'im]

     the servant led [him] to the rear room

2. (Southern Min, chiefly Teochew, Leizhou Min) to cause; to lead someone to do something
3. (Hokkien, Teochew, of a man) to marry; to take a wife

   Synonym: 娶

   Coordinate term: 嫁 (of a woman)

   • Late Qing/Early Republic, 《古板三合奇巧奇緣全歌》, volume 1, 潮州 [Chaozhou]: 李萬利, page 4:

     爾我費了許多心　想𡥘媳婦過門庭 [Teochew, trad.]
     尔我费了许多心　想𡥘媳妇过门庭 [Teochew, simp.]

     le² ua² hui³ liou² he² do¹ sim¹, siên⁶ cua⁷ sêg⁴ hu⁶ guê³ mung⁵ têng⁵ [Peng'im]

     You and I have had our hearts set upon [our son] bringing a daughter-in-law across the threshold

4. (Hokkien) to take care of; to bring up; to nurture

   𤆬囡仔 [Hokkien]  ―  chhōa gín-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to take care of a child; to babysit

5. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to lure; to kidnap

Usage notes

• In Mandarin, this word is only used in names, such as 𤆬治 (chhōa-tī in Min Nan, homophone of 𤆬弟, "to lead to a brother"), given to girls to lead to the birth of a son.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 帶 (“to take/bring (someone somewhere)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		帶
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	帶
	Singapore	帶
Cantonese	Hong Kong	帶
Southern Min	Xiamen	𤆬
	Quanzhou	𤆬
	Zhangzhou	𤆬
	Taipei	𤆬 GT
	Penang (Hokkien)	𤆬
	Singapore (Hokkien)	𤆬
	Manila (Hokkien)	𤆬
	Jieyang	邀, 𤆬
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Compounds

• 引𤆬 (ín-chhōa)
• 𤆬某
• 𤆬路 (chhōa-lō͘)
• 𤆬領 / 𤆬领 (chhōa-niá)
• 𤆬頭 / 𤆬头 (chhōa-thâu)
• 相𤆬 (sio-chhōa)
• 育𤆬 (io-chhōa)

References

• “𤆬”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• “(#)”, in 臺灣閩南語按呢寫‎^[1], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2013.
• 劉建仁 (2011 February 27) “帶路雞（ts‘ua⊦-lɔ⊦-ke ）──（台灣習俗之一）”, in 台灣話的語源與理據‎^[2] (in Chinese), retrieved 2019-05-26