拓 · tà
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Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
expand; open up; support or push
- Mandarin
- tà
- Cantonese
- tok3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 拓 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 척
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
- 탁
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+62D3
- Radical
- 手 · 64
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
8 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 拓
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 石 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 石聲
Line 13816 · ⿰扌石 · 石聲 · source reference 4411580
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- thak · 他各 反切 · #3571
- Middle Chinese
- tsyek · 之石 反切 · #3654
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 18486 · thak = 宕開一入唐透 · tsyek = 梗開三入清章
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- tà
- kCantonese
- tok3
- kDefinition
- expand; open up; support or push
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 64.5
- kTGH
- 2013:957
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- zhí,tuò,tà 31849.060
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- tà 1107.100 · tuò 1174.110
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- tà 355.150 · tuò 376.080
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- tuò粵tok3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 他各 之石
- Kangxi positions
- 0425.130
- Guangyun positions
- 505.56 518.25
- GSR references
- 0795m
- Cangjie
- QMR
- Four-corner
- 5106.0