接

接 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手卜廿女 (QYTV), four-corner 5004₄, composition ⿰扌妾)

• KangXi: page 439, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12280
• Dae Jaweon: page 789, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1905, character 1
• Unihan data for U+63A5

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔseb) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 妾 (OC *sʰeb) – to receive (in the hand).

接

1. to come near to; to be close to; to come into contact

   接觸／接触  ―  jiēchù  ―  to touch; to come into contact

2. to receive

   接受  ―  jiēshòu  ―  to accept; to receive

   交接  ―  jiāojiē  ―  to transfer; to hand over

3. to host; to receive or admit someone

   接待  ―  jiēdài  ―  to host (visitors)

4. to catch

   接球  ―  jiēqiú  ―  to catch a ball

5. to continue; to follow

   接續／接续  ―  jiēxù  ―  to continue; to relay

   接二連三／接二连三  ―  jiē'èrliánsān  ―  to follow one another

   再接再厲／再接再厉  ―  zàijiēzàilì  ―  to keep on

6. to take over

   接管  ―  jiēguǎn  ―  to take over

7. to connect

   接口  ―  jiēkǒu  ―  (computing) interface

   嫁接  ―  jiàjiē  ―  to graft

8. to pick up the phone

   無人接聽／无人接听  ―  wúrén jiētīng  ―  nobody's answering

9. to meet, greet and welcome (someone); to pick up (a person)

   我現在在開車去接你。 [MSC, trad.]
   我现在在开车去接你。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ xiànzài zài kāichē qù jiē nǐ. [Pinyin]

   I'm driving over to pick you up right now.

10. a surname: Jie

• (to come near to):

• (to connect):

• (to continue):

• (to pick up the phone): (Cantonese) 聽／听 (tīng)
• (to meet, greet and welcome): 迎接 (yíngjiē), (literary) 迎迓 (yíngyà)

• “接”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #7330”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. touch

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←せふ (sefu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←せふ (sefu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: せつ (setsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: つぐ (tsugu, 接ぐ, Jōyō); まじわる (majiwaru, 接わる)^{←まじはる (mazifaru, 接はる, historical)}

接 (eumhun 이을 접 (ieul jeop))

1. Hanja form^? of 접 (“touch”).

• 접속 (接續, jeopsok, “connection; access”)
• 근접 (近接, geunjeop, “proximity”)

接: Hán Nôm readings: tiếp

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