扼

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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

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/

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/
Hui	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/ŋə²⁴/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/ŋæ²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/ak̚¹/
Hakka	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/

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

to grasp; to clutch
to guard; to control
to choke; to strangle
^† Alternative form of 軛／轭 (è, “yoke”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

扼

(Hyōgai kanji)

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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