扼

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扼 U+627C, 扼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-627C
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Translingual

Han character

扼 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手一尸山 (QMSU), four-corner 51012, composition ⿰扌厄)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 419, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11848
  • Dae Jaweon: page 766, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1834, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+627C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 扼
alternative forms 搤

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (戹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
呃 *qreːɡs, *qreːɡ
阸 *qreːɡs, *qreːɡ
厄 *qreːɡ
蚅 *qreːɡ
扼 *qreːɡ
軛 *qreːɡ
戹 *qreːɡ
豟 *qreːɡ
呝 *qreːɡ
軶 *qreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qreːɡ) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 厄 (OC *qreːɡ).

Pronunciation

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 扼
Mandarin Beijing /ɤ⁵¹/
Harbin /ɤ²⁴/
/nɤ²⁴/
Tianjin /nɤ⁵³/
Jinan /ŋə⁴²/
Qingdao /ɣə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ɛ⁵³/
Xi'an /ŋei²¹/
Xining /ȵi⁴⁴/
/nɛ⁴⁴/ 新
Yinchuan /ə¹³/
Lanzhou /ɛ¹³/
Ürümqi /ŋɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /ŋɤ²¹³/
Chengdu /ŋe³¹/
Guiyang /ŋɛ²¹/
Kunming /ə³¹/
Nanjing /əʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʐɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɣaʔ²/
Pingyao /ŋʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /ŋaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ŋəʔ¹/
Suzhou /ŋəʔ³/
Hangzhou /ʔɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /a²¹³/
Hui Shexian /ŋɛʔ²¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ŋə²⁴/
Xiangtan /ŋæ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /ak̚¹/
Taoyuan /ɑk̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ɐk̚⁵/
/ak̚⁵/
Nanning /ŋɐk̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /ɐk̚⁵/
/ak̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /ik̚³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /aiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ŋɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /eʔ²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ŋɔk̚⁵/
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 扼
Reading # 1/1
No. 2710
Phonetic
component 		戹
Rime
group 		錫
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		戹
Old
Chinese 		/*qreːɡ/
Notes 同搤原㧖

Definitions

扼

  1. to grasp; to clutch
  2. to guard; to control
  3. to choke; to strangle
  4. † Alternative form of 軛／轭 (è, “yoke”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

扼

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. command
  2. dominate
  3. prevent
  4. obstruct

Readings

  • Go-on: やく (yaku)
  • Kan-on: あく (aku)
  • Kun: おさえる (osaeru, 扼える)、おす (osu, 扼す)

Korean

Hanja

扼 • (aek) (hangeul 액, revised aek, McCune–Reischauer aek, Yale ayk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

扼: Hán Nôm readings: ách

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