掣 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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chè

drag

Phonosemantic compound. 手 represents the meaning and 制 represents the sound.

Components

手 Meaning component

shǒu

hand

制 Sound component

zhì

control

Definitions

chè

drag, pull; hinder by pulling back; to pull; to draw; to pull back; to withdraw; to flash past

Most common words with 掣

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3596th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	12
Unicode	U+63A3

Sources