crowd

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

齊 sound component

  Sound component

  

even, uniform

Evolution

擠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
擠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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crowd, squeeze, push against; to crowd in; to cram in; to force others aside; to press; to squeeze; to find (time in one's busy schedule)

Most common words with 擠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to crowd in

拥挤

crowded

挤出

to squeeze out

挤压

to squeeze

挤满

jam-packed

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.7136% of movies

1723rd most common character in movies

1661st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+64E0

Shuowen

“擠,排也。从手,齊聲。”


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