掠

掠 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手卜口火 (QYRF), four-corner 5009₆, composition ⿰扌京)

1. rob, ransack, plunder
2. pass by

• KangXi: page 438, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12273
• Dae Jaweon: page 788, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1903, character 2
• Unihan data for U+63A0
• Unihan data for U+F975

Historical forms of the character 掠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡ·raŋs, *ɡ·raɡ) : semantic 手 (“insect”) + phonetic 京 (OC *kraŋ).

See 略 (lüè, “to plunder, to pillage”)

掠

1. to rob; to loot
2. to sweep through
3. (Min Nan) to catch, to capture

   員外見了氣昂昂　叱聲家丁人一衆　與我掠住二個人 [Teochew, trad.]
   员外见了气昂昂　叱声家丁人一众　与我掠住二个人 [Teochew, simp.]

   From: Late Qing/early Republic, anonymous, 古板一世報全歌 book 3 page 10

   ueng⁵ ghua⁷ gin³ liou² ki³ ngang¹ ngang¹, ceg⁴ sian¹ ge¹ deng¹ nang⁵ zeg⁸ zeng³, e² ua² liah⁸ zu⁶ no⁶ gai⁵ nang⁵ [Peng'im]

   The master of the house was filled with rage on seeing this, and called to the group of servants: “capture [those] two for me”

4. (Min Nan) to arrest
5. (obsolete) to flog; to beat

   • 趙高治斯，榜掠千餘，不勝痛，自誣服。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     赵高治斯，榜掠千余，不胜痛，自诬服。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Zhào Gāo zhì Sī, bàng lüè qiān yú, bùshēng tòng, zì wū fú. [Pinyin]

     Zhao Gao, as inquisitor, gave Li Si over a thousand flogs by the rod. Si, unable to bear the pain, false pleaded guilty.

• → Proto-Tai: *C̬.lakᴰ (“to steal”)
  • Thai: ลัก (lák, “to steal”)

掠

1. (Cantonese) to obtain (money) forcefully

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

• Go-on: らく (raku); ろう (rō)
• Kan-on: りゃく (ryaku); りょう (ryō)
• Kun: かすめる (kasumeru, 掠める)

• 侵掠(しんりゃく) (shinryaku)
• 奪掠(だつりゃく) (datsuryaku)
• 掠奪(りゃくだつ) (ryakudatsu)
• 掠笞(りょうち) (ryōchi)

Middle Chinese 掠

• (Tokyo) りゃ​く [ryáꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɾʲa̠kɯ̟ᵝ]

掠(りゃく) • (ryaku) 

1. the sixth of the Eight Principles of Yong

• 永字八法(えいじはっぽう) (eiji happō, “the Eight Principles of Yong”)

• 側(そく) (soku, “the first of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
• 勒(ろく) (roku, “the second of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
• 努(ど) (do, “the third of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
• 趯(てき) (teki, “the fourth of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
• 策(さく) (saku, “the fifth of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
• 啄(たく) (taku, “the seventh of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
• 磔(たく) (taku, “the eighth of the Eight Principles of Yong”)

掠 (eumhun 노략질할 략 (noryakjilhal ryak), South Korea 노략질할 약 (noryakjilhal yak))

1. Hanja form^? of 략/약 (“rob, ransack, plunder”).
2. Hanja form^? of 략/약 (“pass by”).

掠 (eumhun 볼기칠 량 (bolgichil ryang), South Korea 볼기칠 양 (bolgichil yang))

1. Hanja form^? of 량/양 (“flog, beat”).

• 略

掠: Hán Nôm readings: lướt, lược, lựng

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