遏
遏 — al
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 막을 알
- Romanization
- al
- English
- stop, suppress, curb, check; a bar
- Mandarin
- è
- Japanese on'yomi
- アツ, アチ, カツ, カチ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- とど.める と.める
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 辵 (162, 9 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 曷
- Unicode
- U+904F
Parts that make up 遏
- 曷 어찌 갈sound 입을 벌려 조르는 사람‘갈·알·할’ 계열의 소리
- 辶 네거리와 발가고 오는 일, 길 위의 움직임
How 遏 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 遏 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 辵, 曷.
Japanese words with 遏
- 禁遏きんあつ prohibition; ban
- 防遏ぼうあつ prevention; preclusion
- 防遏手段ぼうあつしゅだん preventive measure
Characters sharing the phonetic 曷
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “알”
Other hanja with radical 辵
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