| Chinese Text Project |
| 扼 U+627C |  Seal script | 㧖 Semantic variant | 搤 Semantic variant |
| Radical: | 手+ 4 strokes = 7 strokes total. |
|---|---|
| References: | Kangxi: p.419#15 Cihai: p.561r5c03 GSR: 844.f Hanyu: v3,p1834#10 |
| Composition: | Left: 扌, right: 厄. |
| Mandarin: | è ㄜˋ |
| Cantonese: | aa1 aak1 ak1 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·手部·四》扼：《集韻》《韻會》《正韻》𠀤乙革切。同㧖。《前漢·李陵傳》力扼虎，射命中。又《正韻》與軛通。《莊子·馬蹄篇》加之以衡扼。本作搹。詳㧖字註。 |
| Unihan definition: | grasp, clutch; choke, strangle |
Example usage
| 《揚子法言》: | 曰：「扼欹。」 |
| Yangzi said: Hold on to the tipping-vessel. | |
| 《莊子·馬蹄》: | 夫加之以衡扼，齊之以月題，而馬知介倪、闉扼、鷙曼、詭銜、竊轡。 |
| But if we put the yoke on their necks, with the moonlike frontlet displayed on all their foreheads, then they know to look slily askance, to curve their necks, to rush viciously, trying to get the bit out of their mouths, and to filch the reins (from their driver). | |
| 《商君書·君臣》: | 瞋目扼腕而語勇者得，垂衣裳而談說者得，遲日曠久積勞私門者得，尊向三者，無功而皆可以得，民去農戰而為之，或談議而索之，或事便辟而請之，或以勇爭之。 |
| If men with angry eyes, who clench their fists and call themselves brave, are successful; if men in flowing robes, who idly talk, are successful; if men who waste their time and spend their days in idleness, and save their efforts for obtaining benefit through private channels, are successful - if these three kinds of people, though they have no merit, all obtain respectful treatment, then people will leave off farming and fighting and will do this: either they will extort it by discussions and suggestions, or they will ask for it by practising flattery, or they will struggle for it by acts of bravery. | |
| 《潛夫論·交際》: | 今世俗之交也，未相照察而求深固，探懷扼腕，拊心祝詛，苟欲相護論議而已，分背之日，既得之後，則相棄忘。 |
| 《論衡·狀留》: | 沉滯在能自濟，故有不拔之扼。 |
| 《韓非子·備內》: | 唯母為后而子為主，則令無不行，禁無不止，男女之樂不減於先君，而擅萬乘不疑，此鴆毒扼昧之所以用也。 |
| 《管子·度地》: | 此五水者，因其利而往之可也，因而扼之可也。 |
| 《淮南子·主術訓》: | 鞅鞈鐵鎧，瞋目扼腕，其於以御兵刃，縣矣。 |
| 《戰國策》: | 樊於期偏袒扼腕而進曰：「此臣日夜切齒拊心也，乃今得聞教。」 |
| 《鹽鐵論·利議》: | 今舉異才而使臧騶御之，是猶扼驥鹽車而責之使疾。 |
| 《列女傳·宋鮑女宗》: | 若其以淫意為心，而扼夫室之好，吾未知其善也。 |
| 《漢書·王莽傳中》: | 女作五威後關將軍，壼口捶扼，尉睦于後。 |
| 《後漢書》: | 許少施巧，秦成力折，掎僄狡，扼猛噬，脫角挫脰，徒搏獨殺。 |
| 《釋名·釋言語》: | 惡，扼也，扼困物也。 |
| 《抱朴子·論仙》: | 豈當扼腕空言，以僥倖榮華，居丹楹之室，受不訾之賜，帶五利之印，尚公主之貴，耽淪勢利，不知止足，實不得道，斷可知矣。 |
| 《金樓子·立言下》: | 末俗之風，孟子所以扼腕。 |
| 《三國志·劉表傳》: | 袁術無豪芒之功，纖介之善，而猖狂于時，妄自尊立，固義夫之所扼腕，人鬼之所同疾。 |
| 《群書治要·周易》: | 處尊履正，居巽之中，散汗大號，以湯險扼者也。 |
| 《藝文類聚·儲宮》: | 凡民之喪，有戚有姻，太子之歿，傍無昵親，跼蹐嚴宮，絕命禁闈，幽柩偏寄，孤魂曷歸，嗚呼太子，生冤歿悲，疋夫有怨，尚或殞霜，矧乃太子，萬邦攸望，普天扼腕，率土懷傷，精感六沴，咎徵紫房，爰茲元輔，啟我令圖，王赫斯怒，天誅靡逋，攙搶叱掃，元凶服辜，仁詔引咎，哀策東徂，光復寵祚，紹建藐孤，於時暉服，粲焉畢陳，庭旅舊物，堂有故臣，孰云太子，不見其人，嗚呼哀哉。 |
| 《通典》: | 盈手曰搹，搹，扼也。 |
| 《三國演義》: | 公今畫地而守，扼其喉而使不能進，情見勢竭，必將有變。 |
| 《太平御覽·冬下》: | 豈在振目扼腕，手操鞭樸，而後為治歟？ |
| 《太平廣記·張雲容》: | 遂賜雙金扼臂。 |
| 《朱子語類·歷代一》: | 言與人鬥者，不扼其喉，拊其背，未見其能勝也。 |
| 《郁離子·盜犨》: | 中其肯，扼其害，操其機而運之，蔑不從矣。 |
| 《墨子閒詁·備城門》: | 大一圍，儀禮喪服，鄭注云「中人之扼圍九寸」。 |
| 《全唐詩·宮詞百首》: | 扼臂交光紅玉軟，起來重擬理箜篌。 |
| 《康熙字典·十》: | 《後漢·杜篤傳》城池百尺，扼塞要害。 |
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