撥

撥 U+64A5, 撥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-64A5 ← 撤 [U+64A4] CJK Unified Ideographs 撦 → [U+64A6]

Traditional	撥
Shinjitai (extended)	𫝼
Simplified	拨

撥 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手弓人水 (QNOE), four-corner 5204₇, composition ⿰扌發)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 455, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12727
• Dae Jaweon: page 804, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1964, character 6
• Unihan data for U+64A5

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *paːd) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 發 (OC *pad).

trad.		撥
simp.		拨

撥

1. (transitive) to turn around; to move in a "waving", scattering way, including:
   1. to dispel; to scatter
   2. to distribute; to allocate (resources, staff, etc); to set aside (money)
   3. to dial (a phone number)
   4. to push aside or forward with the foot, hand, stick, etc.
   5. to stir; to pluck
   6. (figurative) to incite; to excite
   7. to play a plucked string instrument
   8. to wave a fan
   9. to poke (a fire)
   10. (Southern Min) to take out (time, etc.)(Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
   11. (Southern Min) to divert; to reallocate; to misappropriate (money, funds, etc.)
2. (intransitive) to wave; to sweep; to whirl
3. (intransitive) to ferment (of wine); to brew
4. (transitive) to delete; to cut
5. (transitive) to reject; to abandon
6. (transitive) to govern; to rule; to pacify

   撥亂反正／拨乱反正  ―  bōluànfǎnzhèng  ―  to bring order out of chaos

7. plectrum
8. Classifier for people or things: group; batch

• (to turn around): 掉轉／掉转 (diàozhuǎn)
• (to take out): 抽 (chōu)
• (to divert): 挪用 (nuóyòng)
• (to brew): 潑／泼 (pō)
• (group): 撥子／拨子 (bōzi)

trad.		撥
simp.		拨
alternative forms		畀 不

Likely a glottalized variant of 把 (MC paeX, “to hold; to give (dialectal)”) (Dai, 2004).

First attested as 撥垃／拨垃 (peq-laq) in Shan'ge (山歌) by Feng Menglong. It is, however, likely that the term was already common before this attestation.

撥 (Wu)

1. [from 17th c.] to give

   我撥伊一本書。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
   我拨伊一本书。 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   ⁶ngu ⁷peq-yi ⁷iq-pen ¹sy [Wugniu]

   I give him a book.

2. [from 17th c.] to allow

   • 勿要說敗吓，就是撥俚吃也吃窮了哉。 [Northern Wu, trad.]
     勿要说败吓，就是拨俚吃也吃穷了哉。 [Northern Wu, simp.]

     From: 1876, 描金鳳

     Don't lose to him in an argument, even if we let him eat, he'll eat a lot.

3. [from 17th c.] to; for; by

   搿個物事是撥儂個。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
   搿个物事是拨侬个。 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   ⁸geq-gheq ⁸meq-zy ⁶zy ⁷peq ⁶non-gheq [Wugniu]

   This is for you.

   講撥人家聽／讲拨人家听 [Shanghainese]  ―  ⁵kaon-peq ⁶gnin-ka ¹thin [Wugniu]  ―  to tell someone else

   送禮物撥老師 [Shanghainese, trad.]
   送礼物拨老师 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   ⁵son ⁶li-veq ⁷peq ¹lau-sy [Wugniu]

   to give a gift to one's teacher

   • 我撥伊罵脫兩聲。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
     我拨伊骂脱两声。 [Shanghainese, simp.]

     From: 2011, Hu Baotan, 弄堂, page 2

     ⁶ngu ⁷peq-yi ⁶mo-theq-lian-san [Wugniu]

     I was briefly scolded by him.

• (to give):

• (by):

Shinjitai (extended)	𫝼
Kyūjitai	撥

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𫝼)

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• Go-on: はち (hachi)
• Kan-on: はつ (hatsu)
• Kan’yō-on: ばち (bachi)
• Kun: おさめる (osameru, 撥める)、かかげる (kakageru, 撥げる)、はねる (haneru, 撥ねる)、はらう (harau, 撥う)^{←はらふ (farafu, 撥ふ, historical)}、ひらく (hiraku, 撥く)

In modern Japanese, 撥 is mostly replaced by 発, due to the deprecation of non-tōyō kanji caused by the Japanese script reform.

Kanji in this term
撥
ばち Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 撥 (MC pat).

• (Tokyo) ばち [bàchíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ba̠t͡ɕi]

撥(ばち) or 撥(バチ) • (bachi) 

1. plectrum for instruments such as the biwa and shamisen

• 桴(ばち), 枹(ばち) (bachi)

From Middle Chinese 撥 (MC pat).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pa̠ɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [발]

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pʌ̹ɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [벌]

Wikisource

撥 (eumhun 다스릴 발 (daseuril bal))
撥 (eumhun 방패 벌 (bangpae beol))

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• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]
• Zonmal.com Hanja Dictionary (존말닷컴 한자사전／漢字辭典) (2002-2005). [2]

撥: Hán Nôm readings: phết, bát, phiết

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撥

1. Sawndip form of fwed (“wing”)