揠

揠 U+63E0, 揠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63E0 ← 揟 [U+63DF] CJK Unified Ideographs 握 → [U+63E1]

Translingual

Han character

揠 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手尸日女 (QSAV), four-corner 5101₄, composition ⿰扌匽)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 443, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12363
• Dae Jaweon: page 794, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1913, character 4
• Unihan data for U+63E0

Chinese

trad.		揠
simp. #		揠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 揠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
堰	*qrens, *qanʔ, *qans
躽	*qrens, *qeːnʔ
宴	*qeːnʔ, *qeːns
蝘	*qeːnʔ, *qanʔ
偃	*qanʔ
郾	*qanʔ, *qans
鶠	*qanʔ
褗	*qanʔ, *qans
匽	*qanʔ
鼴	*qanʔ
鰋	*qanʔ
揠	*qreːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qreːd): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 匽 (OC *qanʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yà (ya⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aat³
• Eastern Min (BUC): ák
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): at

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ag⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷aq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yà
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yà
    • Wade–Giles: ya⁴
    • Yale: yà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yah
    • Palladius: я (ja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: aat³
    • Yale: aat
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aat⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: ad³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aːt̚³/

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

• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ák
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɑʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: at
    • Tâi-lô: at
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /at̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /at̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /at̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /at̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /at̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ag⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ak
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ak̚²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁷aq
    • MiniDict: ah^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴aq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /aʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'eat

Rime
Character	揠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	鎋 (75)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	烏黠切
Baxter	'eat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠɛt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚæt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəɨt̚/
Li Rong	/ʔɛt̚/
Wang Li	/æt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔat̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ya
Expected Cantonese Reflex	aat3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤr[e]t/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qreːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	揠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yà
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔɛt ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˁr[e]t/
English	pull up
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	揠
Reading #	1/1
No.	14396
Phonetic component	妟
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	軋
Old Chinese	/*qreːd/

Definitions

揠

1. to pull up
2. to promote

Compounds

• 揠苗助長 / 揠苗助长 (yàmiáozhùzhǎng)

Japanese

Kanji

揠

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to pull up
2. to eradicate

Readings

• On (unclassified): さつ (satsu)、あつ (atsu)
• Kun: ぬく (nuku)、ふだ (fuda)

Korean

Hanja

揠 • (al) (hangeul 알, revised al, McCune–Reischauer al, Yale al)

1. pull out
2. extract

Vietnamese

Han character

揠: Hán Nôm readings: kiền, loát

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References

• Nom Foundation