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取

取

取 U+53D6, 取
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53D6
← 叕
[U+53D5] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 受 →
[U+53D7]

Translingual

Han character

取 (radical 29 又+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 尸十水 (SJE), four-corner 17140, composition ⿰耳又)

References

  • KangXi: page 166, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3158
  • Dae Jaweon: page 377, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 395, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+53D6

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 取

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (取) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
陬 *ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *ʔslo
棷 *ʔsloː, *sʰloːʔ, *sloːʔ, *ʔsru
掫 *ʔsloː, *ʔsruʔ, *ʔslo
緅 *ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *slos
趣 *sʰloːʔ, *sʰlos
取 *sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ
鯫 *zloː, *zloːʔ, *sʰlo
棸 *rlu, *rluʔ, *ʔsru
鄹 *ʔsru, *zloʔ, *ljoːnʔ
郰 *ʔsru
齱 *ʔsru, *sʰroːɡ
菆 *ʔsru, *sʰros, *zloːn
箃 *ʔsru
黀 *ʔsru
驟 *zrus
最 *zloːds
襊 *sʰoːds, *sʰoːd
蕞 *zoːds
嘬 *sʰroːds
諏 *ʔslo
娵 *ʔslo
娶 *sʰloʔ, *sʰlos, *slo
聚 *zloʔ, *zlos
埾 *zlos
藂 *zloːŋ
叢 *zloːŋ
繓 *ʔsoːd
撮 *ʔsoːd, *sʰoːd

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 取 取
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 清 (14) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 七庾切 蒼苟切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰɨoX/ /t͡sʰəuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰioX/ /t͡sʰəuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰioX/ /t͡sʰəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰuə̆X/ /t͡sʰəwX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰioX/ /t͡sʰuX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰĭuX/ /t͡sʰəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰi̯uX/ /t͡sʰə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qǔ cǒu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 取 取 取
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cǒu qǔ qù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshuwX › ‹ tshjuX › ‹ tshjuH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tsʰˤoʔ/ /*tsʰoʔ/ /*[ts]ʰoʔ-s/
English take take take (a wife)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 取 取
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10626 10656
Phonetic
component		 取 取
Rime
group		 侯 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 取
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰloːʔ/ /*sʰloʔ/

Definitions

取

  1. to take; to fetch
  2. to get; to obtain
  3. to receive
  4. to select; to choose
  5. Original form of 娶 (qǔ, “to marry”).
  6. A surname​.

Synonyms

  • (Cantonese) 攞 (lo2)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

取

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. take, fetch, take up

Readings

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

取 • ‎(chwi) (hangeul 취, revised chwi, McCune-Reischauer ch'wi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

取 (thủ, thú)

  1. take, seize

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