è

grasp

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

厄 sound component

  Sound component

è

  

adversity, distress

Evolution

扼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
扼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
扼 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
扼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

è

grasp, clutch; choke, strangle; to grip forcefully; to clutch at; to guard; to control; to hold

() 

è

variant of [è]

Most common words with 扼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

扼杀

to strangle

扼死

to strangle

to guard

简明扼要

succinct

扼腕

to wring one's hands (literally wring one's wrists)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.3066% of movies

2955th most common character in movies

2931st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+627C

Shuowen

“搹,把也。从手,鬲聲。,搹或从戹。”


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