按

按 U+6309, 按
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6309
← 挈
[U+6308] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 挊 →
[U+630A]

Translingual

Han character

按 (radical 64 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手十女 (QJV), four-corner 53044, composition ⿰扌安)

References

  • KangXi: page 429, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12038
  • Dae Jaweon: page 779, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1876, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6309

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 按

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (安) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
安 *qaːn
鞍 *qaːn
鞌 *qaːn
侒 *qaːn
按 *qaːns
案 *qaːns
洝 *qaːns
荌 *qaːns
晏 *qaːns, *qraːns
鴳 *qraːns
騴 *qraːns
鷃 *qraːns
頞 *qaːd
胺 *qaːd
咹 *qaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qaːns) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 安 (OC *qaːn).

Etymology

Exoactive of 安 (OC *qaːn, “be calm”), lit. "cause to be settled, calmed".

Pronunciation

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
Rime
Character 按
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 烏旰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔanH/
Li
Rong		 /ʔɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /ɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 àn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 按
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 àn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔanH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔˤa[n]-s/
English repress

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 按
Reading # 1/1
No. 15
Phonetic
component		 安
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 按
Old
Chinese		 /*qaːns/

Definitions

按

  1. to push (with hands); to press
    按鈕 / 按钮  ―  ànniǔ  ―  to press a button
  2. to put aside
  3. to restrain
  4. to check against
  5. to make comments; to write notes
  6. according to; referring to; following

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

按

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

按 • (an, al) (hangeul 안, 알, revised an, al, McCune–Reischauer an, al, Yale an, al)

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Vietnamese

Han character

按 (án, ấn, ướn)

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