yā
mortgage
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 甲 represents the sound.
Components
Definitions
yā
mortgage, pledge; deposit; to pawn; to arrest, detain, guard; to mortgage; to detain in custody; to escort and protect; (literary) to sign
Most common words with 押
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to pawn | ||
to put up collateral | ||
to imprison | ||
to detain | ||
deposit |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔˤrep | 'aep | yā | to seal, stamp |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.8166% of movies
1669th most common character in movies
1775th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+62BC |
Sources
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