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Meanings

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  1. 1.distressed
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  1. 1.variant of 厄[è]

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.harrowing; miserable
  2. 2.disaster; calamity; catastrophe
  3. 3.adversity; difficulty; distress
  4. 4.to be stranded
  5. 5.strategic point
  6. 6.Used in 科厄.
  7. 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

厄厂㔾

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Example sentences

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Synonyms

困乏困窘困窮困穷困苦困頓困顿宋凶散散凶散赤清苦淡薄清貧清贫㾪赤磽硗䆀康空乏窄窘促窘困窘迫窮穷窮乏穷乏窮困穷困

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Derived terms

乘人之厄兵厄厄利垂亞厄利垂亚厄會厄会厄爾巴島厄尔巴岛厄瓜多厄臺厄台厄運厄运厄難厄难厄魯特族厄鲁特族困厄在陳之厄在陈之厄央厄水厄消災解厄消灾解厄災厄灾厄矜貧救厄矜贫救厄解厄陳蔡之厄

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Related words

厄运 bad luck解厄 (literary) to save from a calamity困厄 in deep water厄境 difficult situation灾厄 adversity厄娃 Eve, the first woman (transcription used in Catholic versions of the Bible) (from Hebrew Ḥawwāh)厄洛斯 Eros (Cupid)厄瓜多 Ecuador (Tw)厄什塔 Ørsta (city in Norway)莱旺厄尔 Levanger (city in Trøndelag, Norway)厄瓜多尔 Ecuador厄尔尼诺 (meteorology) El Niño