挟 挾
挟挾 in English
- to press from either side / to place in between / to sandwich / to carry sth under armpit / wedged between / between / to intersperse / to mix / to mingle / clip / folder / Taiwan pr. [jia2] / old variant of 夾|夹[jia1]
- (bound form) to clasp under the arm / (bound form) to coerce / (bound form) to harbor (resentment etc) / Taiwan pr. [xia2]
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 挾, the traditional character: 挟 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 4 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).