# 捫

| 捫 | U+636B, &#25451; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-636B |
| ← 捪 [U+636A] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 捬 → [U+636C] |

## Translingual
### Han character

捫 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手日弓 (QAN), four-corner 5702$_0$, composition ⿰扌門)
* stoke, pat, feel by hand, grope

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 435, character 5
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12197
* Dae Jaweon: page 784, character 22
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1908, character 3
* Unihan data for U+636B

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 蔄 | *roːs, *mruːns |
| 闅 | *min, *mrɯn, *mɯn |
| 閩 | *mrɯn, *mɯn |
| 蕄 | *mɯːŋ, *mrɯːŋ |
| 門 | *mɯːn |
| 捫 | *mɯːn |
| 悶 | *mɯːns |
| 聞 | *mɯn, *mɯns |
| 閿 | *mɯn |
| 問 | *mɯns |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mɯːn): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 門 (OC *mɯːn).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): mén (men$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄣˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): mun$^4$ / mun$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): bûn
    (Teochew, Peng'im): mung$^5$ / meng$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: mén
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄣˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: mén
*** Wade–Giles: mên$^2$
*** Yale: mén
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: men
*** Palladius: мэнь (mɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /mən³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: mun$^4$ / mun$^1$
*** Yale: mùhn / mūn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: mun$^4$ / mun$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: mun$^4$ / mun$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /muːn²¹/, /muːn⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn
*** Tâi-lô: bûn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: buun
*** IPA (Xiamen): /bun²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /bun²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /bun²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun²³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: mung$^5$ / meng$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mûng / mṳ̂ng
*** Sinological IPA : /muŋ⁵⁵/, /mɯŋ⁵⁵/
* mung5 - Chaozhou;
* meng5 - Chaoyang, Puning, Huilai.
* Middle Chinese: mwon
Rime :
| Character | 捫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 魂 (55) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 莫奔切 |
| Baxter | mwon |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /muən/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /muon/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /muən/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /mwən/ |
| Li Rong | /muən/ |
| Wang Li | /muən/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /muən/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | mén |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | mun$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[m]ˤ[ə][n]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*mɯːn/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 捫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | mén |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ mwon › |
| Old Chinese | /*[m]ˁ[ə][n]/ |
| English | hold (v.) |
| 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 | 捫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8961 |
| Phonetic component | 門 |
| Rime group | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 門 |
| Old Chinese | /*mɯːn/ |

### Definitions

捫
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### Compounds

* 扣槃捫燭 / 扣槃扪烛
* 捫參歷井 / 扪参历井
* 捫心 / 扪心
* 捫心無愧 / 扪心无愧
* 捫心自問 / 扪心自问 (ménxīnzìwèn)
* 捫搎 / 扪𰓧
* 捫摸 / 扪摸
* 捫舌 / 扪舌
* 捫蝨 / 扪虱
* 捫蝨而言 / 扪虱而言
* 捫隙發罅 / 扪隙发罅
* 蝨空捫 / 虱空扪

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: もん (mon)
* Kan-on: ぼん (bon)
* Kun: なでる (naderu)、とる (toru)、ひねる (hineru)

## Korean
### Hanja

捫 (eum 문 (mun))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

捫: Hán Nôm readings: môn
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#### References

* Nom Foundation