What 搹 means
搹 means “to grasp” or “hold.”
An early record appears in 《說文解字》, a Chinese character dictionary completed around 100 CE, where 搹 is glossed as “to grasp.” The ritual text 《儀禮》 uses it in 苴絰大搹 for a hemp mourning cord thick enough to fill the hand.
搹 is an older character form linked to 扼, the regular modern form; 㧖 is another recorded variant. 扼 also means “to control” or “to block.”
Literary and archaic; it marks an older written form of 扼.
Use 扼 in ordinary contemporary Chinese; reserve 搹 for historical or variant-focused writing.
Who writes 搹
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Questions people ask
1Why does 搹 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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