Chinese Character Wiki
握

wò

grasp

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 屋 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

屋 sound component

屋  Sound component

wū

  

house, room

Evolution

握 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
握 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
握 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

握  

wò

grasp, hold fast, take by hand; to hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); to master; classifier: a handful

Most common words with 握
Freq.
Word
Meaning

掌握

to control

把握

to seize

握

to hold

握手

to shake hands

握住

to grip

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 32.0679% of movies

1228th most common character in movies

1032nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+63E1

Shuowen

“握，搤持也。从手，屋聲。，古文握。”


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