擁

擁 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手卜女土 (QYVG), four-corner 5001₄, composition ⿰扌雍)

• 𡃵

• 拥 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 457, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12781
• Dae Jaweon: page 806, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1972, character 1
• Unihan data for U+64C1

Historical forms of the character 擁
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qoŋ, *qoŋʔ) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 雍 (OC *qoŋ, *qoŋs).

擁

1. to embrace; to hug someone
2. to wrap around; to squeeze
3. to gather around; to crowd
4. to provide support; to protect
5. to have something; to possess; to hold
6. crowd of people
7. (dialectal Mandarin) to push
8. Alternative form of 壅 (“to obstruct”)

擁

1. (Cantonese) to push

   擁車仔／拥车仔 [Cantonese]  ―  ung² ce¹ zai² [Jyutping]  ―  to push a cart

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01677
• “擁”, 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–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. to hold
2. to embrace
3. to protect

• Go-on: ゆ (yu)^{←ゆ (yu, historical)}
• Kan-on: よう (yō, Jōyō)^{←よう (you, historical)}
• Kun: いだく (idaku, 擁く); だく (daku, 擁く); まもる (mamoru, 擁る)

From Middle Chinese 擁 (MC 'jowngX).

• IPA^(key): [jo̞ː]

擁(よう) • (yō) 

1. to embrace; to protect

擁 (eumhun 낄 옹 (kkil ong))

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擁: Hán Nôm readings: ủng

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