English

1. hold
2. to pick (flowers)
3. gather with hand
4. to pinch
5. choke
6. to nip
7. to pinch off
8. to clutch
9. (slang) to fight
10. to sqeeze; to pinch; to twist with one's fingers; to apply pressure with one's handsunreviewed?
11. (see also 扼 aak1) (of one's throat or neck) to strangleunreviewed?

粵語

1. 雙手或者多隻手指夾住一嚿嘢，向佢施加壓力unreviewed?
2. 扼某人條頸unreviewed?

Variants

• 𠜼semantic variant

Words containing 掐

• 掐算haap3 syun3

  to count with one's fingers

• 掐死haap3 sei2

  to throttle

• 掐住haap3 zyu6

  to choke

• 掐架haap3 gaa3

  (of dogs, roosters etc) to fight; to tussle

• 掐斷haap3 dyun6

  to nip off (with fingernails etc)

• 掐錶haap3 biu1

  to use a stopwatch

• 掐脖子haap3 but6 zi2

  to seize by the throat

• 掐着指頭haap3 zoek6 zi2 tau4