壓

See also 压, and 圧

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 厭 + semantic 土 (“dust”)

Han character

壓 (radical 32 土+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一大土 (MKG), four-corner 7121₄, composition ⿱厭土)

1. press
2. oppress
3. crush
4. pressure

References

• KangXi: page 241, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5557
• Dae Jaweon: page 480, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 495, character 6
• Unihan data for U+58D3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

壓 (simplified 压, Yale aat3, ngaat3)

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Japanese

Kanji

壓

Readings

• On: あつ (atsu), おう (ō), えん (en)
• Kun: おさえる (osaeru)

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Korean

Hanja

壓 (hangeul 압, revised ap, McCune-Reischauer ap)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

壓 (simplified 压, pinyin yā (ya1), Wade-Giles ya¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

壓 (áp, ếm)