# 掂

| 掂 | U+6382, &#25474; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6382 |
| ← 掁 [U+6381] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 掃 → [U+6383] |

## Translingual
### Han character

掂 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手戈卜口 (QIYR), four-corner 5006$_1$, composition ⿰扌店)

#### Derived characters

* 𫫓

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 436, character 12
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12235
* Dae Jaweon: page 785, character 23
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1903, character 4
* Unihan data for U+6382

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 頕 | *taːm |
| 煔 | *ɦlaːm, *hljems, *hl'eːms |
| 炶 | *ɦlaːm |
| 詀 | *rteːm, *rdeːms, *teːm, *tʰjeb |
| 站 | *rteːms |
| 檆 | *sreːm |
| 黏 | *nem |
| 粘 | *nem |
| 枮 | *slem, *ʔl'ɯm |
| 霑 | *tem |
| 沾 | *tem, *teːms, *tʰeːm |
| 覘 | *tems, *tʰem |
| 鉆 | *tʰem, *ɡrem, *tʰeːb |
| 占 | *ʔljem, *tjems |
| 颭 | *tjemʔ |
| 佔 | *tjems, *teːm |
| 苫 | *hljem, *hljems |
| 痁 | *hljem, *teːms |
| 蛅 | *njem |
| 阽 | *lem |
| 敁 | *teːm |
| 掂 | *tiːm |
| 點 | *teːmʔ |
| 玷 | *teːmʔ, *teːms |
| 店 | *tiːms |
| 坫 | *tiːms, *tim |
| 黇 | *tʰeːm |
| 扂 | *deːmʔ |
| 拈 | *neːm |
| 鮎 | *neːm |
| 砧 | *ʔl'ɯm |
| 笘 | *teːb |
| 跕 | *teːb, *tʰeːb |
| 貼 | *tʰeːb |
| 帖 | *tʰeːb |
| 怗 | *tʰeːb |
| 呫 | *tʰeːb |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tiːm) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 店 (OC *tiːms).

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): diān (dian$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): dim$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiam
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: diān
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dian
*** Wade–Giles: tien$^1$
*** Yale: dyān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dian
*** Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ti̯ɛn⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: dim$^1$
*** Yale: dīm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dim$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dim$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /tiːm⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiam
*** Tâi-lô: tiam
*** Phofsit Daibuun: diafm
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiam⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tiam³³/
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*tiːm/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 掂 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16720 |
| Phonetic component | 占 |
| Rime group | 侵 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 𩬑 |
| Old Chinese | /*tiːm/ |
| Notes | 敁晚起分化字 |

#### Definitions

掂
* to weigh in the hand
* to break; to snap off
* to haggle over; to bother about
* to take

##### Synonyms

* (to weigh in the hand): (colloquial) 掂掇 (diānduo), 掂量 (diānliáng)

#### Compounds

* 扎掂
* 掂倈／掂俫
* 掂對／掂对
* 掂折
* 掂掇 (diānduo)
* 掂提
* 掂斤估兩／掂斤估两
* 掂斤抹兩／掂斤抹两
* 掂斤播兩／掂斤播两
* 掂梢折本
* 掂腳舒腰／掂脚舒腰
* 掂詳／掂详
* 掂過兒／掂过儿
* 掂量 (diānliáng)
* 沒掂三／没掂三

### Etymology 2

Matisoff (2006) considers it to be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-(t/d)jam (“full; straight; flat”).

#### Pronunciation

* Cantonese
    (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): dim$^6$
    (Taishan, Wiktionary): iam$^5$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: dim$^6$
*** Yale: dihm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dim$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dim$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /tiːm²²/
** (Taishanese, Taicheng)
*** Wiktionary: iam$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /iam³²/

#### Definitions

掂 (Cantonese)
* straight; upright
* (of matters) settled; steady; OK
* (of speech) clear and smooth

##### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 豎 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 豎 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 豎 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 豎, 順, 立 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 豎, 立 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 豎, 直 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 豎, 直 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 豎 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hefei | 豎 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 掂, 戙 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 直, 掂, 戙 |
| Cantonese | Yangjiang | 掂, 直 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 敦, 直 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 直 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 豎 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 直 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 直, 徛 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 徛 |
| Southern Min | Chaozhou | 徛, 直 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 直, 豎 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 豎 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 敦, 直 |
| Xiang | Shuangfeng | 敦, 直 |

#### Compounds

* 傾掂／倾掂
* 唔掂
* 得掂
* 打掂
* 打橫打掂／打横打掂
* 掂當／掂当
* 掂行掂過／掂行掂过
* 掂行掂過／掂行掂过
* 掂過轆蔗／掂过辘蔗
* 搞掂
* 攞把頸掂／𫽋把颈掂
* 斟掂
* 橫掂／横掂
* 橫死掂死／横死掂死
* 橫睇掂睇／横睇掂睇

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* Cantonese
    (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): dim$^3$
    (Taishan, Wiktionary): iam$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: dim$^3$
*** Yale: dim
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dim$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dim$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /tiːm³³/
** (Taishanese, Taicheng)
*** Wiktionary: iam$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /iam³³/

#### Definitions

掂 (Cantonese)
* to touch
       m$^4$ hou$^2$ dim$^3$ keoi$^5$ di$^1$ je$^5$ [Jyutping]
       don't touch their stuff

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tìm
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tìm
*** Tâi-lô: tìm
*** Phofsit Daibuun: dixm
*** IPA (Xiamen): /tim²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tim⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /tim²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /tim¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /tim²¹/

#### Definitions

掂 (Hokkien)
* to weigh in the hand
* heavy
* (of colour) dark

### Etymology 5

* For pronunciation and definitions of 掂 – see 踮 (“to stand on one's tiptoes; to live; to stay; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 踮).

### References

* “掂”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* zi.tools

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): てん (ten)
* Kun: はかる (hakaru)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

掂: Hán Nôm readings: giếm
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