摟

摟 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 手中中女 (QLLV), four-corner 5504₄, composition ⿰扌婁)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 450, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12595
• Dae Jaweon: page 800, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1946, character 2
• Unihan data for U+645F

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *roː, *ro) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 婁 (OC *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro).

摟

1. to hug; to embrace

   • 忘不了把你摟在懷裡的感覺　比藏在心中那份火熱更暖一些 [MSC, trad.]
     忘不了把你搂在怀里的感觉　比藏在心中那份火热更暖一些 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2004, 刀郎, 《2002年的第一場雪》

     wàng bù liǎo bǎ nǐ lǒu zài huáilǐ de gǎnjué, bǐ cáng zài xīnzhōng nà fèn huǒrè gèng nuǎn yīxiē [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. armspan

摟

1. to gather up
2. (colloquial) to pull up; to tuck up
3. to extort; to rake in
4. (regional) to calculate with an abacus
   1. (regional, figurative) to verify through calculation; to examine and calculate; to assess
5. (dialectal) to pull; to draw
6. (Cantonese, dialectal Hakka) to drape; to cover
7. (Cantonese, of insects) to crawl or hover over

   啲嘢畀烏蠅摟過就唔好食啦。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   啲嘢畀乌蝇搂过就唔好食啦。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   di¹ je⁵ bei² wu¹ jing^4-1 lau¹ gwo³ zau⁶ m⁴ hou² sik⁶ laa¹. [Jyutping]

   Don't eat the food if it's hovered by flies.

• (to gather up):

• (to extort):

• (to verify through calculation):

摟

1. ^† to pull in; to rope in; to gather

摟

1. (Cantonese, transitive) to instigate; to invite; to tempt
2. (Cantonese, transitive) to provoke

   摟打／搂打 [Cantonese]  ―  lau¹ daa² [Jyutping]  ―  to invite to be beaten up

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. hug, embrace
2. drag, pull

• On (unclassified): ろう (rō)、る (ru)
• Kun: ひく (hiku)

摟: Hán Nôm readings: lùa, lâu

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