擠

See also: 挤

Translingual

Han character

擠 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 手卜難 (QYX), four-corner 5002₃, composition ⿰扌齊)

1. crowd, squeeze, push against

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 459, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12848
• Dae Jaweon: page 808, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1976, character 1
• Unihan data for U+64E0

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Chinese

trad.		擠
simp.		挤

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (齊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
儕	*zriːl
麡	*zriːl, *ʔsliːl, *zliːl
齋	*ʔsriːl
穧	*ʔsleds, *ʔsliːls, *zliːls
擠	*ʔsliːl, *ʔsliːls
躋	*ʔsliːl, *ʔsliːls
齏	*ʔsliːl
齎	*ʔsliːl, *ʔslil
櫅	*ʔsliːl
齌	*ʔsliːl, *sʰliːl, *zliːls
隮	*ʔsliːl, *ʔsliːls
賷	*ʔsliːl
虀	*ʔsliːl
濟	*ʔsliːlʔ, *ʔsliːls
癠	*ʔsliːlʔ, *zliːl, *zliːlʔ, *zliːls
霽	*ʔsliːls
齊	*zliːl, *zliːls
臍	*zliːl
蠐	*zliːl, *zlil
懠	*zliːl, *zliːls
薺	*zliːlʔ, *zlil
鱭	*zliːlʔ
嚌	*zliːls
劑	*zliːls, *ʔslel
齍	*ʔslil

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jǐ (ji³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zai¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ché / chiak / chek / jek / khoeh / kheh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jǐ
    • Wade–Giles: chi³
    • Yale: jǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jii
    • Palladius: цзи (czi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zai¹
    • Yale: jāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐi̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ché
    • Tâi-lô: tsé
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zea
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡se⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡se⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiak
    • Tâi-lô: tsiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chek
    • Tâi-lô: tsik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zeg
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /t͡siɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jek
    • Tâi-lô: jik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jeg
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ziɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khoeh
    • Tâi-lô: khueh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoeq
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /kʰueʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰueʔ⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kheh
    • Tâi-lô: kheh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qeq
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰeʔ³²/

Note:

• ché - literary;
• chiak/chek/jek - 績 is used in the Mainland;
• khoeh/kheh - vernacular (俗), 𤲍 is used in Taiwan.

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• Middle Chinese: tsej, tsejH

Rime
Character	擠	擠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	祖稽切	子計切
Baxter	tsej	tsejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sei/	/t͡seiH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sei/	/t͡seiH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɛi/	/t͡sɛiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sɛj/	/t͡sɛjH/
Li Rong	/t͡sei/	/t͡seiH/
Wang Li	/t͡siei/	/t͡sieiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡siei/	/t͡sieiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jī	jì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zai1	zai3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsliːl/, /*ʔsliːls/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	擠	擠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10033	10049
Phonetic component	齊	齊
Rime group	脂	脂
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	齎	霽
Old Chinese	/*ʔsliːl/	/*ʔsliːls/
Notes	祖由相校改

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 擠

1. to crowd together tightly; to squeeze

   擠得像沙丁魚／挤得像沙丁鱼  ―  jǐ de xiàng shādīngyú  ―  packed like sardines

2. to squeeze one's way in; to cram in
3. to wring; to use pressure to extract
4. (Cantonese) to place; to put

See also

• (to place): 擺／摆 (bǎi), 放 (fàng)

Compounds

References

• “Entry #12176”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

擠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: さい (sai)
• Kan-on: せい (sei)
• Kun: おす (osu, 擠す)

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Korean

Hanja

擠 (eum 제 (je))

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Vietnamese

Han character

擠: Hán Nôm readings: tê, tể, tễ

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