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<WL>攴(=攵) [pū] 小击 tap/prod/poke; 扑: 戒尺 teacher's rule/baton/cane; beat/strike; (radical 66, 攴部); (!夂𠂂)@@; (HDZ:) … | <WL>攴(=攵) [pū] 小击 tap/prod/poke; 扑: 戒尺 teacher's rule/baton/cane; beat/strike; (radical 66, 攴部); (!夂𠂂)@@; (HDZ:) … | ||
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| − | The Shuōwén Seal form of 攴() pū ‘tap/strike’ ( | + | The Shuōwén Seal form of 攵/攴() pū ‘tap/strike’ (in 占卜 divination/teaching) is said to combine 又() yòu ‘(strong/dominant) right hand’, and 卜() bǔ ‘divination crack’ (phonosemantic). |
| − | Note: 攴 | + | Note: Formerly 攴() was seen as the hand of the diviner/shaman (cf. 占), sage/teacher; in later usage 攴 is assoc. with the hand of a teacher holding/raising a rule/baton/cane, the 扑 ‘bastinado’ with which students are gently instructed/disciplined/admonished/punished (crack of a whip, whip smart); cf. 教(敎) jiāo ‘teach’, 𡥈(), 爻(); 变/變(𣀵). |
| − | Old graphs associated with 攴 do not seem to have 卜 | + | Old graphs associated with 攴 do not seem to have the component 卜 in old compounds such as 𤕝(), 𠭲() the top of 攵/攴 is a shape like 𠆢; cf. 𠓥(𠓠𩌻鞭) biān ‘whip’; and in older graphs the shape suggests 力 (HDZ). |
| + | Compare: 殳() shū ‘lance/stab/flail’, as a component in old graphs sometimes conflated with 攵/攴(). | ||
Compare: 扑(擈撲) pū ‘tap/strike’; 父() fù ‘father’, 斧() fǔ ‘axe’. | Compare: 扑(擈撲) pū ‘tap/strike’; 父() fù ‘father’, 斧() fǔ ‘axe’. | ||
| − | + | “[攴] A right hand equipped with a mattock or axe held high” —Lindqvist. [ mattock ‘digging/chopping tool, combining axe/pick and adze’. ] | |
| − | Note: Today as a component 攴 is usually wr. 攵 (as in | + | Note: As semantic determiner, the component 攴/攵 often suggests transitive verbal meanings; cf. 牧, 教, 攷, 敲. |
| − | + | Note: Today as a component 攴 is usually wr. 攵 (as in 教, 救, 敕, 敔, 敝, 敗, 敏, 啟, 敘, 敛, 敢), but some characters have 攴 instead (敲/㪣, 寇/𡨥, …). | |
攴 is the 66th Kangxi radical, not to be confused with 夂 or 夊 (forms of radical 34). | 攴 is the 66th Kangxi radical, not to be confused with 夂 or 夊 (forms of radical 34). | ||
Compare: 攵(攴) pū ‘tap/strike’ (4 strokes); 夂() zhǐ ‘cause/send’ (3 strokes); 夊() suī ‘walk slowly’ (3 strokes). | Compare: 攵(攴) pū ‘tap/strike’ (4 strokes); 夂() zhǐ ‘cause/send’ (3 strokes); 夊() suī ‘walk slowly’ (3 strokes). | ||
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