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jiéjū

hard pressed

jié, jiá laboring hard

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 吉 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

吉 Sound component

jí lucky

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ket	kˤi[t]	grasp (v.)
Zhengzhang		kiːd
		klid

說文解字

手口共有所作也。从手吉聲。《詩》曰：“予手拮据。”

Sources

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

jù to occupy, according to

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 居 represents the sound. Simplified form of 據.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

居 Sound Meaning component

jū live

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	ka

說文解字

《說文》：“据，挶也。从手，居聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

拮 jié, jiá laboring hard

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Character Evolution

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据 jù to occupy, according to

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

jié, jiá laboring hard

jù to occupy, according to