掐 — Chinese character
掐
qiā
to hold, to choke; to gather in one hand
- Pinyin
- qiā
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 扌 臽
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 臽
Common words with 掐
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 掐死 | qiā sǐ | to throttle; to choke to death |
| 掐断 (掐斷) | qiā duàn | to nip off (with fingernails etc); (fig.) to cut off (supply etc) |
| 掐架 | qiā jià | (of dogs, roosters etc) to fight; to tussle; (of people) to have an altercation with sb (physical or verbal) |
| 掐表 (掐錶) | qiā biǎo | to use a stopwatch |
| 掐算 | qiā suàn | to count with one's fingers; on the spot calculation |
| 掐脖子 | qiā bó zi | to seize by the throat |
English words written with 掐
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.
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