擒

擒 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手人卜月 (QOYB), four-corner 5802₇, composition ⿰扌禽)

• 𫬜

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 458, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12816
• Dae Jaweon: page 807, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1961, character 2
• Unihan data for U+64D2

Historical forms of the character 擒
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡrɯm) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 禽 (OC *ɡrɯm).

擒

1. to catch; to capture; to seize; to arrest
2. to hold; to grasp
3. (Cantonese) to climb

   擒上車頂／擒上车顶 [Cantonese]  ―  kam⁴ soeng⁵ ce¹ deng² [Jyutping]  ―  to climb to the top of the car

• 虜, 俘, 囚, 俘虜

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: ごん (gon)^{←ごん (gon, historical)←ごむ (gomu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: きん (kin)^{←きん (kin, historical)←きむ (kimu, ancient)}
• Kun: とらえる (toraeru, 擒える)^{←とらへる (toraferu, 擒へる, historical)}、とりこ (toriko, 擒)

Originally a compound of 取り (tori, “taking, capturing”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 取る (toru), “to take, to capture”) +‎ 子 (ko, “child; small thing”).^[1][2]

• (Tokyo) とりこ [tòríkóꜜ] (Odaka – [3])^[2]
• (Tokyo) とりこ [tòríkó] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [to̞ɾʲiko̞]

擒(とりこ) • (toriko) 

1. a prisoner, captive, slave

Also used metaphorically, such as 恋の擒 (koi no toriko, literally “love's slave”).

擒 • (geum) (hangeul 금, revised geum, McCune–Reischauer kŭm, Yale kum)

1. catch, capture, seize, arrest

擒: Hán Việt readings: cầm^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
擒: Nôm readings: cầm^[1][2]

1. chữ Hán form of cầm (“to hold, keep, capture, seize, arrest”).