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Kanji Detail for 拶 - "approach, press, greeting"

  • Meaning

    拶 means "approach, press, greeting."

    1. Approach - To come near; to draw close.

    2. Press - To push against; to urge.

    3. Greeting - A salutation (in compound 挨拶).

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    be imminent; draw close

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    press, squeeze hard; force

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (literary) to force; to coerce

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to squeeze, to press hard, to force

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To press. Squeezing together. The vulgar form is 拃. Now separately written as 搾. | 拶指: An ancient torture. Using five small wooden sticks connected by rope, inserting the criminal's fingers and tightening, causing pain to extract confession.
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