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seize

Evolution

搤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

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seize

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variant of [è]

Most common words with 搤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

扼杀

to strangle

扼死

to strangle

to guard

简明扼要

succinct

扼腕

to wring one's hands (literally wring one's wrists)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qˤ<r>[i]k

'eak

è

grasp


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

13

Unicode

U+6424

Shuowen

“搤,捉也。从手,益聲。”


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