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| Simplified Chinese version |
| 扼 U+627C |  Seal script | 㧖 Semantic variant | 搤 Semantic variant |
| Radical: | 手+ 4 strokes = 7 strokes total. |
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| References: | Kangxi: p.419#15 Cihai: p.561r5c03 GSR: 844.f Hanyu: v3,p1834#10 |
| Composition: | Left: 扌, right: 厄. |
| Mandarin: | è ㄜˋ |
| Cantonese: | aa1 aak1 ak1 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·手部·四》扼：《集韵》《韵会》《正韵》𠀤乙革切。同㧖。《前汉·李陵传》力扼虎，射命中。又《正韵》与轭通。《庄子·马蹄篇》加之以衡扼。本作搹。详㧖字注。 |
| Unihan definition: | grasp, clutch; choke, strangle |
Example usage
| 《扬子法言》: | 曰：“扼欹。” |
| Yangzi said: Hold on to the tipping-vessel. | |
| 《庄子·马蹄》: | 夫加之以衡扼，齐之以月题，而马知介倪、闉扼、鸷曼、诡衔、窃辔。 |
| But if we put the yoke on their necks, with the moonlike frontlet displayed on all their foreheads, then they know to look slily askance, to curve their necks, to rush viciously, trying to get the bit out of their mouths, and to filch the reins (from their driver). | |
| 《商君书·君臣》: | 瞋目扼腕而语勇者得，垂衣裳而谈说者得，迟日旷久积劳私门者得，尊向三者，无功而皆可以得，民去农战而为之，或谈议而索之，或事便辟而请之，或以勇争之。 |
| If men with angry eyes, who clench their fists and call themselves brave, are successful; if men in flowing robes, who idly talk, are successful; if men who waste their time and spend their days in idleness, and save their efforts for obtaining benefit through private channels, are successful - if these three kinds of people, though they have no merit, all obtain respectful treatment, then people will leave off farming and fighting and will do this: either they will extort it by discussions and suggestions, or they will ask for it by practising flattery, or they will struggle for it by acts of bravery. | |
| 《潜夫论·交际》: | 今世俗之交也，未相照察而求深固，探怀扼腕，拊心祝诅，苟欲相护论议而已，分背之日，既得之后，则相弃忘。 |
| 《论衡·状留》: | 沉滞在能自济，故有不拔之扼。 |
| 《韩非子·备内》: | 唯母为后而子为主，则令无不行，禁无不止，男女之乐不减于先君，而擅万乘不疑，此鸩毒扼昧之所以用也。 |
| 《管子·度地》: | 此五水者，因其利而往之可也，因而扼之可也。 |
| 《淮南子·主术训》: | 鞅鞈铁铠，瞋目扼腕，其于以御兵刃，县矣。 |
| 《战国策》: | 樊于期偏袒扼腕而进曰：“此臣日夜切齿拊心也，乃今得闻教。” |
| 《盐铁论·利议》: | 今举异才而使臧驺御之，是犹扼骥盐车而责之使疾。 |
| 《列女传·宋鲍女宗》: | 若其以淫意为心，而扼夫室之好，吾未知其善也。 |
| 《汉书·王莽传中》: | 女作五威后关将军，壼口捶扼，尉睦于后。 |
| 《后汉书》: | 许少施巧，秦成力折，掎僄狡，扼猛噬，脱角挫脰，徒搏独杀。 |
| 《释名·释言语》: | 恶，扼也，扼困物也。 |
| 《抱朴子·论仙》: | 岂当扼腕空言，以侥幸荣华，居丹楹之室，受不訾之赐，带五利之印，尚公主之贵，耽沦势利，不知止足，实不得道，断可知矣。 |
| 《金楼子·立言下》: | 末俗之风，孟子所以扼腕。 |
| 《三国志·刘表传》: | 袁术无豪芒之功，纤介之善，而猖狂于时，妄自尊立，固义夫之所扼腕，人鬼之所同疾。 |
| 《群书治要·周易》: | 处尊履正，居巽之中，散汗大号，以汤险扼者也。 |
| 《艺文类聚·储宫》: | 凡民之丧，有戚有姻，太子之殁，傍无昵亲，局蹐严宫，绝命禁闱，幽柩偏寄，孤魂曷归，呜呼太子，生冤殁悲，疋夫有怨，尚或殒霜，矧乃太子，万邦攸望，普天扼腕，率土怀伤，精感六沴，咎徵紫房，爰兹元辅，启我令图，王赫斯怒，天诛靡逋，搀抢叱扫，元凶服辜，仁诏引咎，哀策东徂，光复宠祚，绍建藐孤，于时晖服，粲焉毕陈，庭旅旧物，堂有故臣，孰云太子，不见其人，呜呼哀哉。 |
| 《通典》: | 盈手曰搹，搹，扼也。 |
| 《三国演义》: | 公今画地而守，扼其喉而使不能进，情见势竭，必将有变。 |
| 《太平御览·冬下》: | 岂在振目扼腕，手操鞭朴，而后为治欤？ |
| 《太平广记·张云容》: | 遂赐双金扼臂。 |
| 《朱子语类·历代一》: | 言与人斗者，不扼其喉，拊其背，未见其能胜也。 |
| 《郁离子·盗犨》: | 中其肯，扼其害，操其机而运之，蔑不从矣。 |
| 《墨子闲诂·备城门》: | 大一围，仪礼丧服，郑注云“中人之扼围九寸”。 |
| 《全唐诗·宫词百首》: | 扼臂交光红玉软，起来重拟理箜篌。 |
| 《康熙字典·十》: | 《后汉·杜笃传》城池百尺，扼塞要害。 |
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