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軛 - Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 159, +4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十十一尸山 (JJMSU), four-corner 51012, composition)

軛 - Chinese

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alternative forms

Glyph origin

Old Chinese
*qreːɡs, *qreːɡ
*qreːɡs, *qreːɡ
*qreːɡ
*qreːɡ
*qreːɡ
*qreːɡ
*qreːɡ
*qreːɡ
*qreːɡ
*qreːɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qreːɡ) : semantic (chariot) + phonetic (OC *qreːɡ, yoke) – specialized form of .

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
    • (Pinyin): è (e4)
    • (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ
  • Cantonese
    • (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): aak1
    • (Taishan, Wiktionary): ak4
  • Hakka
    • (Sixian, PFS): ak
    • (Meixian, Guangdong): ag5
  • Min Bei (KCR): ă̤
  • Min Dong (BUC): áik
  • Min Nan
    • (Hokkien, POJ): eh / ek / iak
    • (Teochew, Peng'im): êh4
  • Wu (Wiktionary): 5ngeq
  • Xiang (Wiktionary): nga4 / nge6
  • Middle Chinese: /ʔˠɛk̚/
  • Old Chinese
    • (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤ<r>[i]k/
    • (Zhengzhang): /*qreːɡ/

Definitions

  1. yoke
  2. to restrain; to control

Compounds

  • 犁軛犁轭
  • 狖軛鼯軒狖轭鼯轩
  • 琱軛雕轭
  • 羈軛羁轭
  • 衡軛衡轭
  • 複共軛的复共轭的
  • 負軛负轭
  • 車軛车轭
  • 軛束轭束
  • 軛縛轭缚
  • 輪軛轮轭
  • 轅軛辕轭
  • 銜軛衔轭
  • 鞅軛鞅轭
  • 頓軛顿轭
  • 馬軛马轭

Descendants

軛 - Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Meaning and Definition of 軛
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