攝
简 摄 · 繁 攝Meanings · sip3
- (verb) 1. to fascinate; 2. to attract; (verb) 1. to wedge; (adjective) magnetic
Meanings · nip6
- peaceful
Meanings · sip3
- to take in
- to absorb
- to assimilate
- to act for
- to take a photo
- photo shoot
- photo
- to conserve (one's health)
- to administer
- to assist
- to capture
- to approach
- to regulate
- to wedge
- to insert
- to block up
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.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
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:
- 攝 shè CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(bound form) to take in; to absorb; to assimilate; to capture (video or still images); (literary) to conserve (one's health); (literary) to act for
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: she4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 22 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
nip6 · sip3 · zip3
Cantonese word readings for 攝. 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 take in; to absorb; to extract; to assimilate
- to take a photograph; to shoot
- (literary) to hold; to grasp; to drag
- (literary) to manage; to command; to administer
- (literary) to act as an agent; to be a representative; to act as a proxy
- (literary) to arrest; to apprehend
- (literary) to draw; to attract
- (literary) to assist
- (literary) to be squeezed in between
- (literary) to maintain one's health; to keep fit
- (Chinese phonetics) rhyme group; rhyme class (one of 16 sets of 韻 in Middle Chinese)
- (Hokkien) to fold; to pleat
- (Hokkien) to hold back; to endure; to restrain oneself
- (Mainland China Hokkien) to save; to economize; to cut down on
- (Mainland China Hokkien) to tangle up; to twist together (of rope, string, etc.)
- (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to be capable; to be competent (used with 會 and 𣍐)
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to have one's state of mind captured (by spirits, ghosts, demons, etc.)
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to wrinkle; to wilt; to wither; to shrivel; to crease
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to shrink back; to flinch; to cower; to recoil (especially in hesitation)
character · Etymology 2
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 攝然／摄然 (nièrán)
character · Etymology 3
- (Cantonese) to squeeze into; to wedge in
- (Cantonese) to raise something by putting another thing underneath
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