# 掰

| 掰 | U+63B0, &#25520; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63B0 |
| ← 掯 [U+63AF] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 掱 → [U+63B1] |

## Translingual
### Han character

掰 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹手金竹手 (HQCHQ) or 手金竹手 (QCHQ), four-corner 2255$_0$, composition ⿲手分手)
* (Cantonese) to tear, to rip

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 440, character 18
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12310
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1890, character 2
* Unihan data for U+63B0

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 嬖 | *peːɡs |
| 薜 | *beːɡs, *preːɡ |
| 鐾 | *beːɡs |
| 臂 | *peɡs |
| 譬 | *pʰeɡs |
| 避 | *beɡs |
| 檗 | *preːɡ |
| 擘 | *preːɡ |
| 糪 | *preːɡ, *pʰreːɡ |
| 掰 | *preːɡ |
| 繴 | *breːɡ, *peːɡ |
| 辟 | *peɡ, *pʰeɡ, *beɡ |
| 璧 | *peɡ |
| 鐴 | *peɡ |
| 躄 | *peɡ |
| 襞 | *peɡ |
| 僻 | *pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ |
| 癖 | *pʰeɡ, *pʰeːɡ |
| 廦 | *pʰeɡ, *peːɡ |
| 擗 | *beɡ |
| 躃 | *beɡ |
| 闢 | *beɡ |
| 壁 | *peːɡ |
| 鼊 | *peːɡ |
| 霹 | *pʰeːɡ |
| 劈 | *pʰeːɡ |
| 澼 | *pʰeːɡ |
| 憵 | *pʰeːɡ |
| 甓 | *beːɡ |
| 鷿 | *beːɡ |
| 幦 | *mbeːɡ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 手 + 分 + 手, separation between two hands. A character of very recent creation.

### Etymology

bāi is the colloquial reading of 擘 (bò).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bāi (bai$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): baai$^1$ / mak$^3$ / baai$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pai / póe
* Wu (Northern, Wugniu): $^1$pe; $^7$paq / $^7$paq
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bāi
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄞ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bai
*** Wade–Giles: pai$^1$
*** Yale: bāi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bai
*** Palladius: бай (baj)
*** Sinological IPA : /paɪ̯⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: baai$^1$ / mak$^3$ / baai$^2$
*** Yale: bāai / mak / báai
*** Cantonese Pinyin: baai$^1$ / mak$^8$ / baai$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bai$^1$ / meg$^3$ / bai$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /paːi̯⁵⁵/, /mɐk̚³/, /paːi̯³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pai
*** Tâi-lô: pai
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pay
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pai⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pai³³/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: póe
*** Tâi-lô: pué
*** Phofsit Daibuun: poea
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pue⁴¹/
*** IPA (Taipei, Zhangzhou): /pue⁵³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$pe; $^7$paq
*** MiniDict: pe$^平$; pah$^入$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$pe; $^4$paq
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pe⁵³/, /paʔ⁵⁵/
** (Northern: Suzhou)
*** Wugniu: $^7$paq
*** MiniDict: pah$^入$
*** Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /pɑʔ⁴³/
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*preːɡ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 掰 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 672 |
| Phonetic component | 辟 |
| Rime group | 錫 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 檗 |
| Old Chinese | /*preːɡ/ |
| Notes | 擘今字 |

### Definitions

掰
* to bend or break apart with both hands; to adjust
    掰後視鏡／掰后视镜 ― bāi hòushìjìng ― to adjust the rear-view mirror
* (figurative, colloquial) to talk nonsense; to chatter idly
* (figurative, colloquial) to break up; to end a relationship

#### Synonyms

* (to break apart with both hands): (literary, or dialectal) 擘 (bò)
* (to talk nonsense):
* 七說八說／七说八说 (Hokkien)
* 七講八講／七讲八讲 (Hokkien, Wu)
* 亂說／乱说 (luànshuō)
* 口胡 (kǒuhú) (neologism, Internet slang)
* 妄言 (wàngyán) (literary)
* 妄說／妄说
* 打鑔／打镲 (dǎchǎ) (regional)
* 扯淡 (chědàn)
* 扯臊 (chěsào) (regional)
* 放屁 (fàngpì) (colloquial)
* 放狗屁 (fàng gǒupì) (vulgar)
* 瞎七搭八 ($^7$haq-chiq$_7$-taq$_7$-paq$_7$) (Wu)
* 瞎扯 (xiāchě)
* 瞎掰 (xiābāi)
* 瞎聊 (xiāliáo)
* 瞎說／瞎说 (xiāshuō)
* 胡扯 (húchě)
* 胡言 (húyán)
* 胡言亂語／胡言乱语 (húyánluànyǔ)
* 胡言漢語／胡言汉语 (húyánhànyǔ)
* 胡說／胡说 (húshuō)
* 胡說八道／胡说八道 (húshuōbādào)
* 說東說西／说东说西 (Hokkien)
* 講東講西／讲东讲西 (Hokkien)
* 譗𧫡 (zházhì)
* 鬼扯 (guǐchě) (colloquial)

#### Compounds

* 分斤掰兩／分斤掰两
* 分金掰兩／分金掰两
* 掰了
* 掰交情
* 掰文兒／掰文儿
* 掰腕子 (bāi wànzi)
* 掰謊／掰谎
* 掰開／掰开 (bāikāi)
* 掰開揉碎／掰开揉碎
* 瞎掰 (xiābāi)

### References

* 1 2 David Branner, A Neutral Transcription System for Teaching Medieval Chinese, T ̔ang Studies 17 (1999), p. 110.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

掰: Hán Nôm readings: bài
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