Chinese Character Wiki

挾

xié, jiā

clasp under arm

Wedged 夾 in one's arms 扌; 夾 also provides the pronunciation

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

夾 sound,meaning component

夾  Sound Meaning component

jiā, jiá, jià

  

be wedged or inserted between, pressed from two sides

Evolution

挾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
挾 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
挾 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
挾 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
挾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

挟 (挾) 

xié

clasp under arm; hold to bosom; to clasp under the arm; to coerce

挟 (挾) 

jiā

old variant of 夾|夹[jiā]

Most common words with 挾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

挟持

to seize

要挟

to threaten

挟

to coerce

挟制

forced submission

挟带

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

挟

Unicode

U+633E

Shuowen

“挾，俾持也。从手，夾聲。”


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