挫

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 扌 + phonetic 坐.

Han character

挫 (radical 64 手+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手人人土 (QOOG), four-corner 5801₄)

1. push down
2. chop down
3. grind

References

• KangXi: page 431, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12087
• Dae Jaweon: page 780, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1885, character 3
• Unihan data for U+632B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

挫 (Yale cho3)

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Japanese

Kanji

挫

Readings

• On: ざ (za), さ (sa)
• Kun: くじく (kujiku), くじける (kujikeru)

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Korean

Hanja

挫 (hangeul 좌, revised jwa, McCune-Reischauer chwa, Yale cwa)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

挫 (pinyin cuò (cuo4), zhēn (zhen1), zhěn (zhen3), Wade-Giles ts'o⁴, chen¹, chen³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

挫 (tỏa, toả, doạ, doá)