擢
Meanings · cok3
- pouty
- sexy expressions
Meanings · zok6
- to pull out
- to select
- to promote
Meanings · zaak6
- to pull out
- to select
- to promote
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
- 擢 has the reading cok3 here; Unihan’s citation reading is zok6. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 擢 cok3 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:
- 擢 zhuó CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto pull out; to select; to promote
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: zhuo2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 7 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
zok6
Cantonese word readings for 擢. 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
- (literary) to pull out
- (literary) to select; to promote
- (Hokkien) to pull; to tug
- (Mainland China Hokkien, figurative) to guide and support; to lead
- (Mainland China Hokkien) to coax out of somebody; to trick somebody into telling (of a secret, information, the truth, etc.)
- (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to roughly sew and mend
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to flatten out (especially clothes)
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