攫
jué

snatch away

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

hand

矍
矍 Sound component
jué look about in fright or alarm

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkjwakC.qʷ(r)akseize
Zhengzhangkʷaɡ

說文解字

扟也。从手矍聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)