擗
Meanings · pek6
- to chuck away
- to discard
- to quit doing something
Meanings · pik1
- to beat the breast
- to break off
- break apart using hands
Meanings · bik1
- to beat the breast
- to break off
- break apart using hands
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Reading difference from Unihan
- 擗 has the reading pek6 here; Unihan’s citation reading is pik1. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 擗 pek6 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 擗 pǐ CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(literary) to beat the breast; to break off; to snap off (a branch, an ear of corn etc)
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: pi3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 14 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
bik1 · pek6 · pik1
Cantonese word readings for 擗. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- to beat the breast
- (Hokkien) to beat the mind; to grieve; to cry loudly; to wail
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to fold the limbs (as if distraught)
- (Hokkien) to break open; to split open; to tear open
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to chip; to scratch
character · Etymology 2
- (Cantonese, transitive) to discard; to throw away
- (Hokkien) soft sound made by thin objects like cloth, paper, arrows, fire, etc. being blown or whistling through the wind: flutter; rustle; whoosh
- (Hokkien) to fling or hit with sudden force
- (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to lash out or rebuke with heated words
- (Mainland China Hokkien) to gush out and splash everywhere (of liquid, etc.)
- (Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) sound of hitting
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to shoot (with a catapult, rubber band, etc.)
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to dash lime, ash, mud, etc. on a wall
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to calculate (on an abacus)
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