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壓

壓

See also: 压 and 圧

Translingual

Traditional 壓
Shinjitai 圧
Simplified 压

Han character

壓 (radical 32 土+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一大土 (MKG), four-corner 71214, composition ⿱厭土)

References

  • KangXi: page 241, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5557
  • Dae Jaweon: page 480, character 33
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 495, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+58D3

Chinese

trad. 壓
simp. 压

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (猒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
猒 *qem, *qems
懕 *qem
饜 *qem, *qems
嬮 *qem, *qems, *qeb
厭 *qemʔ, *qems, *qeb
黶 *qemʔ
檿 *qemʔ
魘 *qemʔ, *qeb
厴 *qemʔ
擪 *qemʔ, *qeb
壓 *qreːb
靨 *qeb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qreːb) : phonetic 厭 ‎(OC *qemʔ, *qems, *qeb) + semantic 土 ‎(“dust”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 壓
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 狎 (150)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 烏甲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠap̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔᵚap̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔap̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔaɨp̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʔap̚/
Wang
Li		 /ap̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔap̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ya
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 壓
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yā
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔæp ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔˤrep/
English press down

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 壓
Reading # 1/1
No. 14430
Phonetic
component		 猒
Rime
group		 盍
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 鴨
Old
Chinese		 /*qreːb/

Definitions

壓

  1. to press down on; to compress; to crush
  2. to oppress; to tyrannise
  3. (physics) pressure

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

壓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 圧)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

壓 • ‎(ap) (hangeul 압, revised ap, McCune-Reischauer ap)

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Vietnamese

Han character

壓 (áp, ếm)

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