chè

drag

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
手 meaning component

  Meaning component

shǒu

  

hand

制 sound component

  Sound component

zhì

  

control

Definitions

 

chè

drag, pull; hinder by pulling back; to pull; to draw; to pull back; to withdraw; to flash past

Most common words with 掣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to pull

风驰电掣

fast as lightning

掣肘

to impede

掣电

to flash

牵掣

to impede

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3596th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+63A3


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