# 扼

| 扼 | U+627C, &#25212; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-627C |
| ← 扻 [U+627B] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 扽 → [U+627D] |

## Translingual
### Han character

扼 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手一尸山 (QMSU), four-corner 5101$_2$, composition ⿰扌厄)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 419, character 15
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11848
* Dae Jaweon: page 766, character 7
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1834, character 10
* Unihan data for U+627C

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 呃 | *qreːɡs, *qreːɡ |
| 阸 | *qreːɡs, *qreːɡ |
| 厄 | *qreːɡ |
| 蚅 | *qreːɡ |
| 扼 | *qreːɡ |
| 軛 | *qreːɡ |
| 戹 | *qreːɡ |
| 豟 | *qreːɡ |
| 呝 | *qreːɡ |
| 軶 | *qreːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qreːɡ) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 厄 (OC *qreːɡ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): è (e$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ak$^1$ / aak$^1$
* Northern Min (KCR): ngă̤
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): iak / e̍k / ek
    (Teochew, Peng'im): eh$^4$
* 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: ak$^1$ / aak$^1$
*** Yale: āk / āak
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ak$^7$ / aak$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: eg$^1$ / ag$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɐk̚⁵/, /aːk̚⁵/
* Northern Min
** (Jian'ou)
*** Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ngă̤
*** Sinological IPA : /ŋɛ²⁴/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iak
*** Tâi-lô: iak
*** Phofsit Daibuun: iag
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /iak̚⁵/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: e̍k
*** Tâi-lô: i̍k
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ek
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iɪk̚⁴/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ek
*** Tâi-lô: ik
*** Phofsit Daibuun: eg
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /iɪk̚³²/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: eh$^4$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ṳh
*** Sinological IPA : /ɯʔ²/
* Dialectal data
| Variety | Location | edit扼 |
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ɤ⁵¹/ |
| Mandarin | Harbin | /ɤ²⁴/ /nɤ²⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Tianjin | /nɤ⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Jinan | /ŋə⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Qingdao | /ɣə⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Zhengzhou | /ɛ⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Xi'an | /ŋei²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Xining | /ȵi⁴⁴/ /nɛ⁴⁴/ 新 |
| Mandarin | Yinchuan | /ə¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Lanzhou | /ɛ¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Ürümqi | /ŋɤ⁵¹/ |
| Mandarin | Wuhan | /ŋɤ²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Chengdu | /ŋe³¹/ |
| Mandarin | Guiyang | /ŋɛ²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Kunming | /ə³¹/ |
| Mandarin | Nanjing | /əʔ⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Hefei | /ʐɐʔ⁵/ |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /ɣaʔ²/ |
| Jin | Pingyao | /ŋʌʔ¹³/ |
| Jin | Hohhot | /ŋaʔ⁴³/ |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ŋəʔ¹/ |
| Wu | Suzhou | /ŋəʔ³/ |
| Wu | Hangzhou | /ʔɑʔ⁵/ |
| Wu | Wenzhou | /a²¹³/ |
| Hui | Shexian | /ŋɛʔ²¹/ |
| Hui | Tunxi | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ŋə²⁴/ |
| Xiang | Xiangtan | /ŋæ²⁴/ |
| Gan | Nanchang | |
| Hakka | Meixian | /ak̚¹/ |
| Hakka | Taoyuan | /ɑk̚²²/ |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /ɐk̚⁵/ /ak̚⁵/ |
| Cantonese | Nanning | /ŋɐk̚⁵⁵/ |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | /ɐk̚⁵/ /ak̚⁵/ |
| Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /ik̚³²/ |
| Min | Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /aiʔ²³/ |
| Min | Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /ŋɛ²⁴/ |
| Min | Shantou (Teochew) | /eʔ²/ |
| Min | Haikou (Hainanese) | /ŋɔk̚⁵/ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*qreːɡ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 扼 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2710 |
| Phonetic component | 戹 |
| Rime group | 錫 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 戹 |
| Old Chinese | /*qreːɡ/ |
| Notes | 同搤原㧖 |

### Definitions

扼
* to grasp; to clutch
* to guard; to control
* to choke; to strangle
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 軛 / 轭 (è, “yoke”)

#### Compounds

* 令人扼腕
* 偏袒扼腕
* 扼制 (èzhì)
* 扼吭
* 扼吭拊背
* 扼喉撫背 / 扼喉抚背 (èhóufǔbèi)
* 扼守 (èshǒu)
* 扼殺 / 扼杀 (èshā)
* 扼腕 (èwàn)
* 扼臂
* 扼虎
* 扼要 (èyào)
* 拊背扼喉
* 撫背扼喉 / 抚背扼喉
* 攘袂扼腕
* 簡明扼要 / 简明扼要 (jiǎnmíng èyào)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* command
* dominate
* prevent
* obstruct

#### Readings

* Go-on: やく (yaku)
* Kan-on: あく (aku)
* Kun: おさえる (osaeru, 扼える)、おす (osu, 扼す)

## Korean
### Hanja

扼 • (aek) (hangeul 액, revised aek, McCune–Reischauer aek, Yale ayk)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

扼: Hán Nôm readings: ách
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