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grasp
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 厄 represents the sound. Simplified form of 搤.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 扼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to strangle | ||
to strangle | ||
to guard | ||
succinct | ||
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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