# 遏

| 遏 | U+904F, &#36943; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-904F |
| ← 過 [U+904E] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 遐 → [U+9050] |

## Translingual
### Han character

遏 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜日心女 (YAPV), four-corner 3630$_2$, composition ⿺辶曷)

#### Derived characters

* 𣿌, 𣜶

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1261, character 24
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39004
* Dae Jaweon: page 1754, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3858, character 2
* Unihan data for U+904F

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 遏
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 愒 | *kʰaːds, *kʰrads, *kʰrad |
| 馤 | *qaːds |
| 靄 | *qaːds, *qaːd |
| 餲 | *qraːds, *qrads, *ɡaːd, *qaːd |
| 喝 | *qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd |
| 揭 | *kʰrads, *ked, *kʰrad, *ɡrad, *kad, *ɡad |
| 偈 | *ɡrads, *ɡrad |
| 猲 | *kʰob, *qʰaːd, *qʰad |
| 葛 | *kaːd |
| 輵 | *kaːd |
| 獦 | *klaːd, *rab |
| 渴 | *kʰaːd, *ɡrad |
| 嵑 | *kʰaːd |
| 暍 | *qʰaːd, *qad |
| 曷 | *ɡaːd |
| 褐 | *ɡaːd |
| 鶡 | *ɡaːd |
| 毼 | *ɡaːd |
| 蝎 | *ɡaːd |
| 鞨 | *ɡaːd, *ɢljad |
| 遏 | *qaːd |
| 齃 | *qaːd |
| 堨 | *qaːd |
| 擖 | *kʰreːd, *kraːd, *r'aːb |
| 楬 | *kʰraːd, *ɡrad, *ɡad |
| 朅 | *kʰrad |
| 藒 | *kʰrad |
| 竭 | *ɡrad, *ɡad |
| 碣 | *ɡrad, *ɡad |
| 羯 | *kad |
| 鍻 | *kad |
| 歇 | *qʰad |
| 蠍 | *qʰad |
| 謁 | *qad |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qaːd) : semantic 辵 (“to walk”) + phonetic 曷 (OC *ɡaːd).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): è (e$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): aat$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): at / a̍t
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: è
*** Zhuyin: ㄜˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: è
*** Wade–Giles: o$^4$
*** Yale: è
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eh
*** Palladius: э (e)
*** Sinological IPA : /ˀɤ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: aat$^3$
*** Yale: aat
*** Cantonese Pinyin: aat$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ad$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /aːt̚³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: at
*** Tâi-lô: at
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ad
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /at̚⁵/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /at̚³²/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: a̍t
*** Tâi-lô: a̍t
*** Phofsit Daibuun: at
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /at̚²⁴/
* at - “to snap; to drain (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taiwan)”;
* a̍t - “to decant”.
* Middle Chinese: 'at
Rime :
| Character | 遏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 曷 (63) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 烏葛切 |
| Baxter | 'at |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔɑt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔɑt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔɑt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔat̚/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔɑt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /ɑt̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʔɑt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | e |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ot$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤat/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qaːd/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 遏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | è |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ʔat › |
| Old Chinese | /*qˁat/ |
| English | repress; cease |
| 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 | 遏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5037 |
| Phonetic component | 曷 |
| Rime group | 月 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 遏 |
| Old Chinese | /*qaːd/ |

### Definitions

遏
* to stop; to suppress; to curb; to check
* (Hokkien) to snap something off; to break something
    遏樹枝／遏树枝 [Hokkien] ― at chhiū-ki [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― to break a branch
* (Hokkien) to drain; to strain (by pressing down on the solids)
    遏飲／遏饮 [Hokkien] ― at-ám [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― to drain the rice water
** (Taiwanese Hokkien) to scoop off the scum on the surface of a soup while pressing down on the solids with a ladle

### Compounds

* 夭遏
* 封胡遏末
* 怒不可遏 (nùbùkě'è)
* 抑遏
* 止遏
* 沮遏
* 禁遏
* 褒賢遏惡／褒贤遏恶
* 遏制 (èzhì)
* 遏密
* 遏惡揚善／遏恶扬善
* 遏抑 (èyì)
* 遏止 (èzhǐ)
* 遏漸防萌／遏渐防萌
* 遏藍菜／遏蓝菜
* 遏阻 (èzǔ)
* 遏雲／遏云 (èyún)
* 遏雲社／遏云社
* 防芽遏萌
* 阻遏 (zǔ'è)
* 響遏行雲／响遏行云

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): あつ (atsu)
* Kun: とどめる (todomeru)

## Korean
### Hanja

遏 • (al) (hangeul 알, revised al, McCune–Reischauer al, Yale al)
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