撆

撆 U+6486, 撆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6486 ← 撅 [U+6485] CJK Unified Ideographs 撇 → [U+6487]

Translingual

Han character

撆 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火大手 (FKQ), composition ⿱敝手)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 453, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12677
• Dae Jaweon: page 803, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1940, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6486

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蔽	*peds
鄨	*peds, *ped
鷩	*peds, *ped
彆	*peds, *peːd
潎	*pʰeds, *pʰed
斃	*beds, *bed
敝	*beds, *bed
幣	*beds
弊	*beds
鱉	*ped
虌	*ped
憋	*ped, *pʰed, *peːd
瞥	*pʰed, *pʰeːd
鐅	*pʰed, *pʰeːd
嫳	*bed, *pʰeːd
撇	*pʰeːd
撆	*pʰeːd
暼	*pʰeːd
蹩	*beːd
襒	*beːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰeːd): phonetic 敝 (OC *beds, *bed) + semantic 手 (“hand”)

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		撆

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phia̍t

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phia̍t
    • Tâi-lô: phia̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiat
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiɛt̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰiɛt̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiɛt̚¹²¹/

Definitions

撆

1. (Hokkien) to fan

   規暝葵扇撆無停。 [Hokkien, trad.]
   规暝葵扇撆无停。 [Hokkien, simp.]

   Kui-mî khê-sìⁿ phia̍t bô thêng. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   He fanned the fan the entire night nonstop.

2. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to slap somebody of the face

   撆落去 [Hokkien]  ―  phia̍t lo̍h-khì [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to slap someone's face

Synonyms

• (to slap somebody on the face):

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• 兜巴星 (dau¹ baa¹ sing¹) (Cantonese)
• 冚 (kam2) (Cantonese)
• 戳鏡 / 戳镜 (⁷tshoq-cin) (Wu, dated)
• 打嘴角 (Hakka)
• 打耳光 (dǎ ěrguāng)
• 打耳刮
• 打耳刮子
• 批頰 / 批颊
• 拍喙䫌 / 拍喙𱂮 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 掌嘴 (zhǎngzuǐ)
• 掌摑 / 掌掴 (zhǎngguāi)
• 揌喙䫌 / 揌喙𱂮 (Min Nan)
• 搧喙䫌 / 搧喙𱂮 (Quanzhou Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 搏頰 / 搏颊 (literary)
• 摑耳光 / 掴耳光 (guāi'érguāng)
• 擗喙䫌 / 擗喙𱂮 (Tainan Hokkien)
• 筰 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)

Dialectal synonyms of 打耳光 (“to box someone's ears; to slap someone on the face”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		打耳光, 掌嘴, 打嘴巴
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	打耳括子
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	打嘴角
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	打嘴角, 噼嘴角
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	打嘴角
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	打嘴角
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	打嘴角
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	搧嘴䫌
Southern Min	Xiamen	搧喙䫌, 抉喙䫌, 拍喙䫌
	Quanzhou	搧喙䫌, 抉喙䫌
	Zhangzhou	搧喙䫌, 抉喙䫌
	Tainan	擗喙䫌, 搧喙䫌 GT
Wu	Hangzhou	喫耳光
	Ningbo	摑耳光, 搧巴掌

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		撆

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pih

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pih
    • Tâi-lô: pih
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /piʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /piʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /piʔ³²/

Definitions

撆

1. (Hokkien) alternative form of 䘷 (“to roll up (a sleeve, a pant leg, etc.)”)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 撆 – see 撇 (“to discard; to abandon; to throw away; to skim; to clear from the substance floating on it; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 撇).

References

• “撆”, 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.