掐架
qiā​jià

altercation

掐 qiā hold

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

hand

臽
臽 Sound component
xiàn a pit

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰroːb

說文解字

爪刺也。从手臽聲。

Sources

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

架 jià rack, frame

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 加 represents the sound.

Components

加
加 Sound component
jiā add
木
木 Meaning component
mù tree

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkraːls

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica