扼

扼 U+627C, 扼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-627C ← 扻 [U+627B] CJK Unified Ideographs 扽 → [U+627D]

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): è (e⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ak¹ / aak¹
• Northern Min (KCR): ngă̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): iak / e̍k / ek

  (Teochew, Peng'im): eh⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: è
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: è
    • Wade–Giles: o⁴
    • Yale: è
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eh
    • Palladius: э (e)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ak¹ / aak¹
    • Yale: āk / āak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ak⁷ / aak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: eg¹ / ag¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐk̚⁵/, /aːk̚⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ngă̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɛ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iak
    • Tâi-lô: iak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: e̍k
    • Tâi-lô: i̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ek
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iɪk̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ek
    • Tâi-lô: ik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: eg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /iɪk̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: eh⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ṳh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɯʔ²/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 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/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qreːɡ/

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

• 令人扼腕
• 偏袒扼腕
• 扼制 (èzhì)
• 扼吭
• 扼吭拊背
• 扼喉撫背／扼喉抚背 (èhóufǔbèi)
• 扼守 (èshǒu)
• 扼殺／扼杀 (èshā)
• 扼腕 (èwàn)
• 扼臂
• 扼虎
• 扼要 (èyào)
• 拊背扼喉
• 撫背扼喉／抚背扼喉
• 攘袂扼腕
• 簡明扼要／简明扼要 (jiǎnmíng èyào)

 

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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