抿

抿 U+62BF, 抿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62BF ← 抾 [U+62BE] CJK Unified Ideographs 拀 → [U+62C0]

Translingual

Han character

抿 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手口女心 (QRVP), four-corner 5704₇, composition ⿰扌民)

1. pucker up lips in a smile
2. to press

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 424, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11932
• Dae Jaweon: page 772, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1859, character 3
• Unihan data for U+62BF

Chinese

simp. and trad.		抿
alternative forms		㨉 捪

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
眠	*miːn
民	*min
泯	*min, *minʔ
怋	*min, *mɯːn
岷	*mrin
珉	*mrin
罠	*mrin
笢	*mrin, *minʔ
鈱	*mrin
抿	*mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
刡	*minʔ
敃	*mrinʔ
愍	*mrinʔ
暋	*mrinʔ
蟁	*mɯn

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

	Old Chinese
鍲	*mrɯn
抿	*mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
緡	*mrɯn
捪	*mrɯnʔ
湣	*mrɯnʔ
昏	*hmɯːn
婚	*hmɯːn
閽	*hmɯːn
惛	*hmɯːn, *hmɯːnʔ, *hmɯːns
棔	*hmɯːn
殙	*hmɯːn

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǐn (min³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁵ / man⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bín
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵min

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǐn
    • Wade–Giles: min³
    • Yale: mǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miin
    • Palladius: минь (minʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /min²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: man⁵ / man⁴
    • Yale: máhn / màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁵ / man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁵ / men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn¹³/, /mɐn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bín
    • Tâi-lô: bín
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bien
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bin⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bin⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bin⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bin⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bin⁴¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵min
    • MiniDict: 'min^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²'min
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /min³⁴/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mrɯn/, /*mrɯnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	抿	抿	抿
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	5525	9138	9142
Phonetic component	昏	民	民
Rime group	文	文	文
Rime subdivision	0	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	珉
Old Chinese	/*mrɯn/	/*mrɯn/	/*mrɯnʔ/
Notes	同捪	同捪見呂氏春秋	捪今字

Definitions

抿

1. to smooth; to brush
2. to purse; to pucker
3. to sip
4. (Hokkien) brush (tool)
5. (Hokkien) to brush

Compounds

• 一抿子
• 喙齒抿 / 喙齿抿
• 抿嘴 (mǐnzuǐ)
• 抿子
• 抿泣
• 抿頭 / 抿头
• 抿髮 / 抿发
• 齒抿 / 齿抿
• 齒抿仔 / 齿抿仔

References

• “抿”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

抿

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): びん (bin)、みん (min)
• Kun: なでる (naderu, 抿でる)

Vietnamese

Han character

抿: Hán Nôm readings: mân

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References

• Nom Foundation