捽

捽 U+637D, 捽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-637D ← 捼 [U+637C] CJK Unified Ideographs 捾 → [U+637E]

Translingual

Han character

捽 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手卜人十 (QYOJ), four-corner 5004₈, composition ⿰扌卒)

Derived characters

• 𪨃

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 436, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12225
• Dae Jaweon: page 785, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1904, character 3
• Unihan data for U+637D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		捽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 捽
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
晬	*ʔsuːds
祽	*ʔsuːds
綷	*ʔsuːds
淬	*sʰuːds
啐	*sʰuːds, *suːds, *sʰroːds, *ʔsud
倅	*sʰuːds, *ʔsuːd
焠	*sʰuːds
碎	*suːds
誶	*suːds, *suds, *zud
濢	*ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
噿	*ʔslulʔ
臎	*ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
醉	*ʔsuds
翠	*sʰuds
悴	*zuds
萃	*zuds
瘁	*zuds
顇	*zuds
粹	*suds
睟	*suds
賥	*suds
卒	*ʔsuːd, *sʰuːd, *ʔsud
稡	*ʔsuːd
猝	*sʰuːd
椊	*zuːd
捽	*zuːd, *zud
崪	*zuːd
窣	*suːd
崒	*zud
踤	*zud
錊	*ʔsuːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *zuːd, *zud): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 卒 (OC *ʔsuːd, *sʰuːd, *ʔsud)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zuó, zú (zuo², zu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄛˊ, ㄗㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyut³ / zeot¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chhu̍t

  (Meixian, Guangdong): cud⁶

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chu̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zuó
    • Wade–Giles: tso²
    • Yale: dzwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzwo
    • Palladius: цзо (czo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su̯ɔ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zú
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zú
    • Wade–Giles: tsu²
    • Yale: dzú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzwu
    • Palladius: цзу (czu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cyut³ / zeot¹
    • Yale: chyut / jēut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyt⁸ / dzoet⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: qud³ / zêd¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːt̚³/, /t͡sɵt̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhu̍t
    • Hakka Romanization System: cud
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cud⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰut̚⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: cud⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰut̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tsu̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zut
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sut̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: dzwit, dzwot

Rime
Character	捽	捽
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	術 (52)	沒 (56)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	慈卹切	昨没切
Baxter	dzwit	dzwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ziuɪt̚/	/d͡zuət̚/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zʷit̚/	/d͡zuot̚/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zjuet̚/	/d͡zuət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zwit̚/	/d͡zwət̚/
Li Rong	/d͡ziuĕt̚/	/d͡zuət̚/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭuĕt̚/	/d͡zuət̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi̯uĕt̚/	/d͡zʱuət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jú	zú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeot6	zyut6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*zuːd/, /*zud/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	捽	捽
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17961	17969
Phonetic component	卒	卒
Rime group	物	物
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	捽	崒
Old Chinese	/*zuːd/	/*zud/

Definitions

捽

1. to clutch; to grasp
2. to pull up
3. to contradict
4. (Cantonese, Hakka) to rub

   捽眼 [Cantonese]  ―  zeot¹ ngaan⁵ [Jyutping]  ―  to rub one's eye(s)

   捽仔 [Sixian Hakka]  ―  chhu̍t-é [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]  ―  eraser/rubber

5. (Cantonese) to pressure one into making accomplishments

   捽數／捽数 [Cantonese]  ―  zeot¹ sou³ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   捽成績／捽成绩 [Cantonese]  ―  zeot¹ sing⁴ zik¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to pressure [students] into getting good results

Compounds

• 扭捽
• 捽仔 (Hakka)
• 捽來火 / 捽来火 (Hakka)
• 捽數 / 捽数 (zeot¹ sou³) (Cantonese)
• 捽桌布
• 捽碟 (zeot¹ dip^6-2) (Cantonese)
• 粉捽仔 (Hakka)
• 風捽仔 / 风捽仔 (Hokkien)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sut

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sut
    • Tâi-lô: sut
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sud
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sut̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sut̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sut̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sut̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sut̚³²/

Definitions

捽

1. (Hokkien) alternative form of 摔 (“to eat quickly”)

References

• “捽”, 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.

Japanese

Kanji

捽

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: そち (sochi)、しゅち (shuchi)、せ (se)
• Kan-on: そつ (sotsu)、しゅつ (shutsu)、さい (sai)、すい (sui)
• Kun: つかむ (tsukamu, 捽む)

Korean

Hanja

捽 • (jol) (hangeul 졸, revised jol, McCune–Reischauer chol)

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Vietnamese

Han character

捽: Hán Nôm readings: lót

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