押

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

押 (radical 64 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手田中 (QWL), four-corner 5605₀)

1. mortgage, pledge
2. deposit
3. to pawn
4. to arrest, detain, guard

References

• KangXi: page 424, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11929
• Dae Jaweon: page 772, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1851, character 8
• Unihan data for U+62BC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

押 (Yale aap3, aat3)

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Japanese

Kanji

押 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: おう (ō)
• Kun: おす (osu), おさえる (osaeru), おし (oshi)

Compounds

• 押忍 (おっす, ossu)
• 押収 (おうしゅう, ōshū)

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Korean

Hanja

押 (hangeul 압, 갑, revised ap, gap, McCune-Reischauer ap, kap, Yale ap, kap)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

押 (pinyin xiá (xia2), yā (ya1), Wade-Giles hsia², ya¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

押 (áp, ắp, ép, ẹp, ét, ếp, ghép, giẹp, ốp, ướp)