English
- clasp under arm
- old variant of 夾|夹[jia1]
- (bound form) to clasp under the arm
- (adjective) Tight or cramped
- hold to bosom
- (bound form) to coerce
- (bound form) to harbor (resentment etc)
- Taiwan pr. [xia2]
- to coerce
- to pinch
粵語
- 用武力或者威嚇去逼人
- 鉗住
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 挾
- 挾持hip3 ci4
to seize (sb) by the arms
- 逼挾bik1 gip6
cramped [colloquial]
- 挾腳gep6 goek3
shoes are too small for the feet; to squeeze the toes
- 挾怨hip6 jyun3
to hold a grudge
- 要挾jiu3 hip3
to threaten
- 挾帶hip3 daai3
to carry along
- 挾制hip3 zai3
to exploit sb's point of weakness to force them to do one's bidding
- 挾製hip6 zai3
- 裹挾gwo2 hip3
to sweep along
- 挾餸gaap3 sung3
to pick up the food with chopsticks
- 挾持雇主hip6 ci4 gu3 zyu2
- 挾細拿粗hip6 sai3 naa4 cou1
to provoke
- 挾天子以令諸侯hip6 tin1 zi2 ji5 ling6 zyu1 hau4
(expr.) hold the feudal overlord and you control his vassals
- 挾天子以令天下hip3 tin1 zi2 ji5 ling6 tin1 haa6
(expr.) hold the feudal overlord and you control the whole country