拮 — Chinese character
拮
jié
busy, occupied; to pursue
- Pinyin
- jié
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 扌 吉
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 吉
- Japanese
- 拮 as a kanji
Common words with 拮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拮据 | jié jū | hard pressed for money; in financial straits |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.