# 𤆬

| 𤆬 | U+241AC, &#147884; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-241AC |
| ← 𤆫 [U+241AB] | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B | 𤆭 → [U+241AD] |

## Translingual
### Han character

𤆬 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹山火 (HUF), composition ⿱毛灬)

#### Derived characters

* 𢯁, 𢉐

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 668, character 3
* Unihan data for U+241AC

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Created for Hokkien. Ngô͘ Siú-lé (吳守禮) suggests that it is an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 毛 (“feathers (representing the feathers of a mother hen)”) + 灬 (“four dots (representing four chicks)”) — a mother hen leading and protecting four chicks under her feathers.

### Etymology

Possibly from 曳 (OC *leds, “to drag”) (Lin, 1999; Yang, 2000; Tu, 2019) or 抴 (OC *lebs, “to pull”) (Tu, 2019).
Also compare 逝 (chōa, “path”) (Ong, 2023).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): chuā (chua$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄚ
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): chhōa
    (Teochew, Peng'im): cua$^7$
    (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): cua$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: chuā
*** Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄚ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: chua
*** Wade–Giles: chʻua$^1$
*** Yale: chwā
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chua
*** Palladius: чуа (čua)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ä⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhōa
*** Tâi-lô: tshuā
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zhoa
*** IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /t͡sʰua⁴¹/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰua²²/
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰua³³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: cua$^7$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshuā
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰua¹¹/
** (Leizhou)
*** Leizhou Pinyin: cua$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰua³⁵/

### Definitions

𤆬
* (Southern Min, Puxian Min) to lead; to guide
    From: 巴克禮譯本 (Barclay Amoy Romanized Bible), 出埃及記 (Exodus) 13:21
    Iâ-hô-hoa kiâⁿ tī in ê thâu-chêng, ji̍t--sî tī hûn-thiāu-tiong chhōa in ê lō͘, mî--sî tī hé-thiāu-tiong kng-chiò in; hō͘ in ji̍t-mî lóng thang kiâⁿ. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.
** Late Qing/Early Republic, 《古板白蓮花全歌》, volume 1, 潮州 [Chaozhou]: 李萬利, page 12v:
       gê$^1$ ring$^5$ cua$^7$ rib$^8$ gao$^3$ ao$^6$ bang$^5$ [Peng'im]
       the servant led [him] to the rear room
* (Southern Min, chiefly Teochew, Leizhou Min) to cause; to lead someone to do something
* (Hokkien, Teochew, of a man) to marry; to take a wife
    Synonym: 娶
    Coordinate term: 嫁 (of a woman)
** Late Qing/Early Republic, 《古板三合奇巧奇緣全歌》, volume 1, 潮州 [Chaozhou]: 李萬利, page 4:
       le$^2$ ua$^2$ hui$^3$ liou$^2$ he$^2$ do$^1$ sim$^1$, siên$^6$ cua$^7$ sêg$^4$ hu$^6$ guê$^3$ mung$^5$ têng$^5$ [Peng'im]
       You and I have had our hearts set upon [our son] bringing a daughter-in-law across the threshold
* (Hokkien) to take care of; to bring up; to nurture
    𤆬囡仔 [Hokkien] ― chhōa gín-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― to take care of a child; to babysit
* (Taiwanese Hokkien) to lure; to kidnap

#### Usage notes

* In Mandarin, this word is only used in names, such as 𤆬治 (chhōa-tī in Min Nan, homophone of 𤆬弟, "to lead to a brother"), given to girls to lead to the birth of a son.

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 帶 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 帶 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 帶 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 帶 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 𤆬 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 𤆬 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 𤆬 |
| Southern Min | Taipei | 𤆬 GT |
| Southern Min | Penang (Hokkien) | 𤆬 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 𤆬 |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 𤆬 |
| Southern Min | Jieyang | 邀, 𤆬 |
| Note | GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified) | GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified) |

### Compounds

* 引𤆬 (ín-chhōa)
* 𤆬某
* 𤆬路 (chhōa-lō͘)
* 𤆬領 / 𤆬领 (chhōa-niá)
* 𤆬頭 / 𤆬头 (chhōa-thâu)
* 相𤆬 (sio-chhōa)
* 育𤆬 (io-chhōa)

### References

* “Entry #13511”, 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., 2024.
* “(#)”, in 臺灣閩南語按呢寫‎, Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2013.
* 劉建仁 (2011 February 27) “帶路雞（ts‘ua⊦-lɔ⊦-ke ）──（台灣習俗之一）”, in 台灣話的語源與理據‎ (in Chinese), retrieved 2019-05-26