jié
take by force
Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 去 represents the sound. Simplified form of 刦.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k(r)ap | kjaep | jié | rob |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 19.9103% of movies
1221st most common character in movies
1825th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+52AB |
Shuowen | “劫,人欲去以力脅止曰劫。或曰:以力止去曰劫。” |
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