挾 — Chinese character
挾
xié
to seize; to hold to one's bosom
- Pinyin
- xié
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 扌 夾
- Formation
- ideographic — Wedged 夾 in one's arms 扌; 夾 also provides the pronunciation
- Simplified
- 挟
- Japanese
- 挾 as a kanji
挾 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 11 · Zhuangzi 2
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.