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枷
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

cangue scaffold

HSK 10
Abstract →Qualities
jiā
カ
かせ、からざお
가
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 加 represents the sound.
Components
木 tree+ 加 add =
枷 cangue scaffold
木 Meaning component
mù tree
加 Phonetic component
jiā add
add to, increase, augment
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Notes
Similar Characters
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Historical Evolution
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
枷
Regular
Modern
Chinese
枷 [jiā]
cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)
Japanese
枷 、 械 (rare) かせ 同音

noun

  1. shackles; fetters; irons; handcuffs; restraint; constraint
  2. bonds (e.g. family); ties; binding relationship; binding relationships; encumbrance
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
制度的に大きな枷となるのは、著作権の問題である。
Institutionally, a major restraint is the copyright problem.
CHINESE WORDS (15)
枷锁 [jiā​suǒ] #15,391
stocks and chain
枷锁 [jiā​suǒ] #15,391
stocks and chain
连枷 [lián​jiā] #55,514
flail
连枷 [lián​jiā] #55,514
flail
枷带锁抓 [jiā​dài​suǒ​zhuā]
in stocks
枷带锁抓 [jiā​dài​suǒ​zhuā]
in stocks
枷板 [jiā​bǎn]
cangue
枷销 [jiā​xiāo]
yoke
枷销 [jiā​xiāo]
yoke
梿枷 [lián​jiā]
variant of 連枷|连枷[lián​jiā]
5 more items
JAPANESE WORDS (10)
枷 [かせ] #12,927
shackles
足かせ [あしかせ] #26,742
fetters
手かせ [てかせ] #34,963
handcuffs
口枷 [くちかせ] #94,797
(mouth) gag
手枷足枷 [てかせあしかせ] #95,497
manacles
首枷 [くびかせ] #95,798
pillory
殻竿 [からざお] #206,523
flail (for threshing grain)
枷蚯蚓 [かせみみず]
Epimenia verrucosa (mollusc)
子は三界の首枷 [こはさんがいのくびかせ]
a child is an everlasting responsibility
猿麻桛 [サルオガセ]
old man's beard (any lichen of genus Usnea)