xié, jiā
clasp under arm
Wedged 夹 in one's arms 扌; 夹 also provides the pronunciation
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 挟
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to seize | ||
to threaten | ||
to coerce | ||
forced submission | ||
to carry along |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.3226% of movies
2930th most common character in movies
2816th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+631F |
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