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扼

Mandarin · pinyin è

to grip forcefully
to clutch at
to guard
to control
to hold

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扼: è · grasp, clutch; choke, strangle

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4 · e4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

aak1 · ak1

Cantonese word readings for 扼. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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to grasp; to clutch
to guard; to control
to choke; to strangle
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 軛 /轭 (è, “yoke”)

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