xié, jiā
clasp under arm
Wedged 夾 in one's arms 扌; 夾 also provides the pronunciation
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 挾
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to seize | ||
to threaten | ||
to coerce | ||
forced submission | ||
to carry along |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-kˤep (?) | hep | xié | grasp |
*S-kˤep | tsep | xié | grasp |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.3226% of movies
2930th most common character in movies
2816th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+633E |
Shuowen | “挾，俾持也。从手，夾聲。” |
Sources
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