敱

敱 U+6571, 敱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6571 ← 数 [U+6570] CJK Unified Ideographs 敲 → [U+6572]

Translingual

Han character

敱 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 山廿卜水 (UTYE), composition ⿰豈攴)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 474, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13331
• Dae Jaweon: page 828, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1471, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6571

Chinese

Pronunciation 1

simp. and trad.		敱
alternative forms		敳／𮲔

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhú (zhu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zuk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhú
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhú
    • Wade–Giles: chu²
    • Yale: jú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwu
    • Palladius: чжу (čžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zuk¹
    • Yale: jūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: zug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊk̚⁵/

Definitions

敱

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Pronunciation 2

simp. and trad.		敱
alternative forms		敳／𮲔

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ái (ai²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): oi⁴ / ngoi⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ái
    • Zhuyin: ㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ái
    • Wade–Giles: ai²
    • Yale: ái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: air
    • Palladius: ай (aj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: oi⁴ / ngoi⁴
    • Yale: òih / ngòih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: oi⁴ / ngoi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: oi⁴ / ngoi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔːi̯²¹/, /ŋɔːi̯²¹/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Definitions

敱

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Pronunciation 3

simp. and trad.		敱
alternative forms		摼／𰓱

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kháiⁿ

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kháiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: kháinn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qvae
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Zhangzhou): /kʰãi⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰãi⁴¹/

Verb

敱

1. (Xiamen Hokkien) to strike heavily with one's shoulder or body
2. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to use one's knuckles with bent fingers to knock, strike, etc.
3. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to strike downwards

References

• (Mandarin, variants) Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01479-001
• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 2), p. 120
• (Cantonese) 粵語審音配詞字庫
• (Hokkien) “敱”, 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.
• (Hokkien) William Campbell (1913), “Khái 敱”, in A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 373.