# 揻

| 揻 | U+63FB, &#25595; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63FB |
| ← 揺 [U+63FA] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 揼 → [U+63FC] |

## Translingual
### Han character

揻 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手戈竹女 (QIHV), composition ⿰扌威)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 445, character 34
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1913, character 11
* Unihan data for U+63FB

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 威 (OC *qul).

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wēi (wei$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wai$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wēi
*** Zhuyin: ㄨㄟ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: wei
*** Wade–Giles: wei$^1$
*** Yale: wēi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uei
*** Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /weɪ̯⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wai$^1$
*** Yale: wāi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wai$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wei$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɐi̯⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

揻
* (dialectal Mandarin, transitive) to bend (a thin, long object)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): ui / oe
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ui$^1$
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ui
*** Tâi-lô: ui
*** Phofsit Daibuun: uy
*** IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ui⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ui³³/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oe
*** Tâi-lô: ue
*** Phofsit Daibuun: oef
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /ue⁴⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: ui$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ui
*** Sinological IPA : /ui³³/

#### Definitions

揻
* (Hokkien, Teochew) to prick; to poke; to bore (with something sharp, like a needle, a knife, etc.)
** 1996, “陀螺”, 陳昇 (lyrics), 楊騰佑 (music)‎performed by 葉璦菱:
       sim-thâu chhin-chhiūⁿ chiam tī-leh ui, koh ná chhâ-thâu lāi ū chi̍t ki thih-teng-á lè [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       My heart feels like a needle pricking it, like an iron nail drilling into a block of wood
** 1997, 潘芳烈 (lyrics and music), “無情風雨寂寞暝”‎performed by 孫淑媚:
       ū ài ê lâng chhiò-iông khui, bô ài ê lâng chù-tiāⁿ siū chiam ui [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       People will love give a big smile; people without love are destined to be pricked by a needle
** 1998, 伍佰 (lyrics and music), “樹枝孤鳥 [Lonely Tree, Lonely Bird]”‎performed by 伍佰&China Blue:
       ah ~ ài-lîn, bô kìⁿ lí ê bīn, chhin-chhiūⁿ hong teh thàu, chhin-chhiūⁿ chiam teh ui [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       Oh, lover, without seeing your face, it is like the wind is blowing, like a needle is pricking
** 2000, 陳明章 (lyrics and music), “追追追”‎performed by 黃妃:
       lú-lîn ê sim, tāu-hū chòe--ê, ūi lí phò-chhùi, līm-iû chiam teh ui [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       The heart of a woman is made of tofu, broken for you, allowing a needle to prick and prod
** 2010, 蕭進惠, 尤景仰 (lyrics and music), “一去不回”‎performed by 小辣椒:
       chhin-chhiūⁿ the̍h chiam ui ji̍p gún sim-té [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       It is like taking a needle, poking it into the bottom of my heart
** 2013, “愛你呀”, 李岩修 (lyrics), 徐嘉良 (music)‎performed by 阿吉仔:
       ài lí ê kám-kak chhiūⁿ chiam ui góa sim-koaⁿ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       The feeling of loving you is like a needle pricking my heart
** 2013, “不驚等歸年”, 黃介文 (lyrics), 李富興 (music)‎performed by 黃乙玲:
       m̄ kiaⁿ su-liām chhiūⁿ chiam ui, chí-iàu lí bô pàng bōe-kì, góa ē tiàm chia chhiùⁿ-chhut ûi-it ê kian-chhî [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       I'm not afraid that yearning is like a needle pricking, as long as you haven't forgotten me, I will stay here singing out my only persistence
** 2015, “唱乎爽”, 林孝謙 (lyrics), 秦旭章 (music)‎performed by 黃妃:
       chi̍t iā siuⁿ-si nā lâi phò-chhùi, sim-thâu chhiūⁿ chiam teh ui [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       If a night of yearning breaks apart, the heart is like a needle is pricking it
** 2016, 郭之儀 (lyrics and music), “十全十美”‎performed by 蔡秋鳳:
       saⁿ-kiⁿ mî-pòaⁿ ê siuⁿ-si, iā-iā tîⁿ kah chhiūⁿ chiam ui [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       The yearning in the middle of the night bothers me every night, like a needle is pricking
** 2017, 陳偉強 (lyrics and music), “心離開”‎performed by 蔡佳麟:
       khòaⁿ lí ūi i teh siong-sim, hō͘ góa sim-lāi chhiūⁿ chiam ui [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       Seeing you break your heart for him makes my heart ache as if it is pricked by a needle
* (Taiwanese Hokkien) to inject
* (Taiwanese Hokkien) to take by force

##### Synonyms

* (to prick): (Mandarin) 刺 (cì), 戳 (chuō); (Cantonese) 篤／笃 (duk1), 㓤 (gat1)

#### Compounds

* 揻揻鑽 / 揻揻钻

### References

* 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “鑽”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC