厄
Meanings
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- 1.distressed
- 1.variant of 厄[è]
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Wiktionary
- 1.harrowing; miserable
- 2.disaster; calamity; catastrophe
- 3.adversity; difficulty; distress
- 4.to be stranded
- 5.strategic point
- 6.Used in 科厄.
- 7.hard; difficult; challenging
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Etymology
Possibly an ideogram (指事) of a person kneeling (卩), and a small stroke to accentuate the knee (now 厂). Not cognate with 戹 (“yoke”) but eventually they shared meanings. Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qreːɡ): phonetic 厂 (OC *hŋaːnʔ, *hŋaːns) + semantic 卪 (“joint; node”) – wood knot. Probably related to 嗌 (OC *qleɡ, “throat”) (Schuessler, 2007). Or borrowed from Tocharian B räk- and Tocharian A räk- (“to stretch, to spread”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
他們向西北方向進軍，進入了謝南多厄河谷。
They marched northwest into the Shenandoah Valley.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
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