抑

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

curb

HSK 7 N1

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yì

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Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 印 represents the sound. Originally written as 印 or 色.

Components

扌 hand (side)+ 印 print =

抑 curb

扌 Meaning component

shou hand (side)

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

印 Phonetic component

yìn print

print, seal, stamp, chop, mark

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

抑

Regular

Modern

Chinese

抑 [yì]

to restrain; to restrict; to keep down; or

Japanese

抑 (rare) 、抑々 (rare) 、抑抑 (rare) そもそも同音

adverbnoun usually kana in the first place; to begin with; from the start; originally; ab initio
conj. usually kana after all; anyway; actually; well, ...; ... on earth (e.g. "what on earth?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?") (used when bringing up something already mentioned)
nounadj-no usually kana beginning; start

抑そも同音

conj. usually kanadated after all; anyway; actually; well, ...; ... on earth (e.g. "what on earth?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?") (used when bringing up something already mentioned)

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (2)

そもそもなぜ鳥は移動するのだろうか。

Why do birds migrate in the first place?

そもそも事故の大半は熱帯雨林ではなく、身近な場所でおこるのである。

Most accidents, after all, happen around the corner, not in the rainforest.