拎

拎 U+62CE, 拎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62CE ← 拍 [U+62CD] CJK Unified Ideographs 拏 → [U+62CF]

Translingual

Han character

拎 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手人戈戈 (QOII), four-corner 5803₇, composition ⿰扌令)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 425, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11953
• Dae Jaweon: page 773, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1855, character 5
• Unihan data for U+62CE

Chinese

trad.		拎
simp. #		拎
alternative forms		㩕

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
令	*ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs
怜	*riːn, *reːŋ
零	*riːŋ, *reːŋ, *reːŋs
魿	*ɡriŋ, *reːŋ
命	*mreŋs
冷	*raːŋʔ, *reːŋ, *reːŋʔ
跉	*reŋ, *reːŋ
嶺	*reŋʔ
領	*reŋʔ
阾	*reŋʔ, *reːŋ
柃	*reŋʔ, *reːŋ
袊	*reŋʔ
詅	*reŋs, *reːŋ
旍	*ʔsleŋ
舲	*reːŋ
齡	*reːŋ
囹	*reːŋ
鴒	*reːŋ
蛉	*reːŋ
鈴	*reːŋ
苓	*reːŋ
伶	*reːŋ
泠	*reːŋ
瓴	*reːŋ
拎	*reːŋ
刢	*reːŋ
玲	*reːŋ
聆	*reːŋ
竛	*reːŋ
軨	*reːŋ
笭	*reːŋ, *reːŋʔ
翎	*reːŋ
閝	*reːŋ
鹷	*reːŋ
昤	*reːŋ
駖	*reːŋ
彾	*reːŋ
呤	*reːŋ
狑	*reːŋ
秢	*reːŋ
岭	*reːŋ
紷	*reːŋ
砱	*reːŋ
羚	*reːŋ
姈	*reːŋ
蕶	*reːŋ
澪	*reːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *reːŋ) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 令 (OC *ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): līn, līng (lin¹, ling¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣ, ㄌㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ling¹, ning¹, ling⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lêng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): lêng⁵

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹lin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: līn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lin
    • Wade–Giles: lin¹
    • Yale: līn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lhin
    • Palladius: линь (linʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan, variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: līng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ling
    • Wade–Giles: ling¹
    • Yale: līng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lhing
    • Palladius: лин (lin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ling¹, ning¹, ling⁴
    • Yale: līng, nīng, lìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ling¹, ning¹, ling⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ling¹, ning¹, ling⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɪŋ⁵⁵/, /nɪŋ⁵⁵/, /lɪŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lêng
    • Tâi-lô: lîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: leeng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪŋ²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: lêng⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /leŋ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹lin
    • MiniDict: 'lin^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹'lin
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lin⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: leng

Rime
Character	拎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	郎丁切
Baxter	leng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/leŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/leŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/lɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/leŋ/
Wang Li	/lieŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/lieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	líng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ling4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*reːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	拎
Reading #	1/1
No.	8298
Phonetic component	令
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	靈
Old Chinese	/*reːŋ/

Definitions

拎

1. to lift; to carry in one's hand

   我給你拎著。／我给你拎着。  ―  Wǒ gěi nǐ līn zhe.  ―  Let me carry it for you.

2. (Cantonese) to take; to hold

   幫我拎住個袋。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   帮我拎住个袋。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   bong¹ ngo⁵ ling¹ zyu⁶ go³ doi^6-2. [Jyutping]

   Hold on to the bag for me.

   佢拎走咗我張紙。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   佢拎走咗我张纸。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   keoi⁵ ling¹ zau² zo² ngo⁵ zoeng¹ zi². [Jyutping]

   He took away my sheet of paper.

Synonyms

• (to take):

Dialectal synonyms of 拿 (“to take; to hold”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		取
Mandarin	Beijing	拿
	Taiwan	拿
	Jinan	拿
	Zhengzhou	拿, 搦
	Xi'an	拿
	Wuhan	拿
	Chengdu	拿
	Guilin	拿
	Yangzhou	拿
	Hefei	拿
	Malaysia	拿
	Singapore	拿
Cantonese	Guangzhou	攞, 拎, 搦
	Hong Kong	攞, 拎, 搦
	Macau	拎
	Taishan	𢬿, 討
	Kaiping (Chikan)	討
	Yangjiang	捰, 拎, 摣
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	攞, 拎
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	攞
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	攞
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	攞
	Penang (Guangfu)	攞
	Singapore (Guangfu)	攞
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	搦
	Móng Cái	攞
Gan	Nanchang	拿
Hakka	Meixian	拿
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	拿
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	拿
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	拿
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	拿
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	提
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	提
	Sabah (Bao'an)	撿
	Kuching (Hepo)	撿, 拿
	Sungai Tapang, Batu Kawa (Hepo)	搦
Huizhou	Jixi	擔
Jin	Taiyuan	荷, 拿
Northern Min	Jian'ou	拿, 㨮
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	拈, 掏
Southern Min	Xiamen	提
	Quanzhou	提, 掗
	Jinjiang	提, 掗
	Zhangzhou	提
	Dongshan	攑
	Taipei	提, 挈 GT
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	提
	Kaohsiung	提
	Yilan	提
	Changhua (Lukang)	提
	Taichung	提
	Tainan	提
	Hsinchu	提
	Kinmen	提, 捎
	Penghu (Magong)	提
	Penang (Hokkien)	攑, 提
	Singapore (Hokkien)	攑, 提
	Manila (Hokkien)	提, 掗
	Chaozhou	挈
	Shantou	挈
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	挈
	Jieyang	挈
	Singapore (Teochew)	挈, 攑
	Wenchang	把
	Haikou	把
	Qionghai	把
	Singapore (Hainanese)	挈
Wu	Shanghai	拿
	Suzhou	拿
	Ningbo	馱, 撈, 挈
	Wenzhou	朵, 抯, 揹
Xiang	Changsha	拿
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no particular region identified)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01552
• “拎”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

拎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): れい (rei); りょう (ryō)
• Kun: かける (kakeru)

Vietnamese

Han character

拎: Hán Nôm readings: lanh, linh, nhạnh

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References

• Nom Foundation