挲

挲 U+6332, 挲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6332 ← 挱 [U+6331] CJK Unified Ideographs 挳 → [U+6333]

Translingual

Han character

挲 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水竹手 (EHQ), four-corner 3950₂, composition ⿱沙手)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 431, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12096
• Dae Jaweon: page 781, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1877, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6332

Chinese

simp. and trad.		挲
alternative forms		挱 𢬰 𭢃 𢶌 𣴷

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
硰	*ʔsaːlʔ, *sʰaːlʔ, *sraːl
娑	*saːl, *saːlʔ
挱	*saːl, *sraːl
挲	*saːl
桫	*saːl
渻	*saːl, *sreŋʔ, *seŋʔ
沙	*sraːl, *sraːls
紗	*sraːl
砂	*sraːl
鯊	*sraːl
裟	*sraːl
桬	*sraːl
髿	*sraːl, *soːl
魦	*sraːl, *soːl
莎	*soːl
莏	*soːl

Characters in the same phonetic series (沙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character	挲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	素何切
Baxter	sa
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/sɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/sɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sa/
Li Rong	/sɑ/
Wang Li	/sɑ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/sɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suō
Expected Cantonese Reflex	so1

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	挲
Reading #	1/1
No.	11021
Phonetic component	沙
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	娑
Old Chinese	/*saːl/
Notes	同挱

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suō (suo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): so¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): so

  (Teochew, Peng'im): so¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suō
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suo
    • Wade–Giles: so¹
    • Yale: swō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suo
    • Palladius: со (so)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: so¹
    • Yale: sō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: so¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: so¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɔː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so
    • Tâi-lô: so
    • Phofsit Daibuun: soy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /so⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /so³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /so⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /so⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɤ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: so¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: so
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /so³³/

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• Middle Chinese: sa

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*saːl/

Definitions

挲

1. to stroke; to caress; to fondle

   Synonym: 撫摸 / 抚摸 (fǔmō)

Compounds

• 挼挲
• 摩挲

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shā (sha¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saa¹
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): sa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shā
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sha
    • Wade–Giles: sha¹
    • Yale: shā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sha
    • Palladius: ша (ša)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: saa¹
    • Yale: sā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sa¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sa
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sa³³/

Definitions

挲

1. Only used in 挓挲 (“to stretch open”).

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sā (sa¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): so¹
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): so¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sā
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sa
    • Wade–Giles: sa¹
    • Yale: sā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sa
    • Palladius: са (sa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: so¹
    • Yale: sō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: so¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: so¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɔː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: so¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: so
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /so³³/

Definitions

挲

1. Only used in 摩挲 (māsa, “to smooth something out by rubbing”).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01305
• “挲”, 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–

Vietnamese

Han character

挲: Hán Nôm readings: sa

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References

• Nom Foundation