掰

See also: 擘

掰	U+63B0, 掰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63B0

← 掯
[U+63AF]

CJK Unified Ideographs

掱 →
[U+63B1]

Translingual

Han character

掰 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹手金竹手 (HQCHQ) or 手金竹手 (QCHQ), four-corner 2255₀, composition ⿲手分手)

(Cantonese) to tear, to rip

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 440, character 18

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12310

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1890, character 2

Unihan data for U+63B0

Chinese

trad.		掰
simp. ^#		掰

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
嬖	*peːɡs
薜	beːɡs, preːɡ
鐾	*beːɡs
臂	*peɡs
譬	*pʰeɡs
避	*beɡs
檗	*preːɡ
擘	*preːɡ
糪	preːɡ, pʰreːɡ
掰	*preːɡ
繴	breːɡ, peːɡ
辟	peɡ, pʰeɡ, *beɡ
璧	*peɡ
鐴	*peɡ
躄	*peɡ
襞	*peɡ
僻	pʰeɡ, pʰeːɡ
癖	pʰeɡ, pʰeːɡ
廦	pʰeɡ, peːɡ
擗	*beɡ
躃	*beɡ
闢	*beɡ
壁	*peːɡ
鼊	*peːɡ
霹	*pʰeːɡ
劈	*pʰeːɡ
澼	*pʰeːɡ
憵	*pʰeːɡ
甓	*beːɡ
鷿	*beːɡ
幦	*mbeːɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 手 + 分 + 手, separation between two hands. A character of very recent^[vague] creation.[1]

Etymology

bāi is the colloquial reading of 擘 (bò).[1]

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bāi (bai¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄞ
Cantonese (Jyutping): baai¹, mak³, baai²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pai / póe
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ¹pe; ⁷paq / ⁷paq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bāi
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄞ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bai
  - Wade–Giles: pai¹
  - Yale: bāi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bai
  - Palladius: бай (baj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: baai¹, mak³, baai²
  - Yale: bāai, mak, báai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baai¹, mak⁸, baai²
  - Guangdong Romanization: bai¹, meg³, bai²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːi̯⁵⁵/, /mɐk̚³/, /paːi̯³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pai
  - Tâi-lô: pai
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pay
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pai⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pai³³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: póe
  - Tâi-lô: pué
  - Phofsit Daibuun: poea
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pue⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei, Zhangzhou): /pue⁵³/

Note: póe - written also as 掱.

Wu
- (Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹pe; ⁷paq
  - MiniDict: pe^平; pah^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹pe; ⁴paq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pe⁵³/, /paʔ⁵⁵/
- (Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ⁷paq
  - MiniDict: pah^入
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /pɑʔ⁴³/

Note: 7paq - usually not connected to the glyph 掰 in urban Shanghainese. see instead 擘.

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*preːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	掰
Reading #	1/1
No.	672
Phonetic component	辟
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	檗
Old Chinese	/*preːɡ/
Notes	擘今字

Definitions

掰

to bend or break apart with both hands; to adjust
掰後視鏡／掰后视镜 ― bāi hòushìjìng ― to adjust the rear-view mirror
(figurative, colloquial) to talk nonsense; to chatter idly
(figurative, colloquial) to break up; to end a relationship

Synonyms

(to break apart with both hands): (literary, or dialectal) 擘 (bò)
(to talk nonsense):

七說八說／七说八说 (Hokkien)
七講八講／七讲八讲 (Hokkien, Wu)
亂說／乱说 (luànshuō)
口胡 (kǒuhú) (neologism, Internet slang)
妄言 (wàngyán) (literary)
妄說／妄说
打鑔／打镲 (dǎchǎ) (regional)
扯淡 (chědàn)
扯臊 (chěsào) (regional)
放屁 (fàngpì) (colloquial)
放狗屁 (fàng gǒupì) (vulgar)
瞎七搭八 (⁷haq-chiq-taq-paq) (Wu)
瞎扯 (xiāchě)
瞎掰 (xiābāi)
瞎聊 (xiāliáo)
瞎說／瞎说 (xiāshuō)
胡扯 (húchě)
胡言 (húyán)
胡言亂語／胡言乱语 (húyánluànyǔ)
胡言漢語／胡言汉语 (húyánhànyǔ)
胡說／胡说 (húshuō)
胡說八道／胡说八道 (húshuōbādào)
說東說西／说东说西 (Hokkien)
講東講西／讲东讲西 (Hokkien)
譗𧫡 (zházhì)
鬼扯 (guǐchě) (colloquial)

Compounds

分斤掰兩／分斤掰两
分金掰兩／分金掰两
掰了
掰交情
掰文兒／掰文儿
掰腕子 (bāi wànzi)
掰謊／掰谎
掰開／掰开 (bāikāi)
掰開揉碎／掰开揉碎
瞎掰 (xiābāi)

References

David Branner, A Neutral Transcription System for Teaching Medieval Chinese, T ̔ang Studies 17 (1999), p. 110.

Vietnamese

Han character

掰: Hán Nôm readings: bài

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