夹 夾
夹夾 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]
- hold between / lined / narrow lane
- Taiwan pr. used in 夾生|夹生[jia1 sheng1] and 夾竹桃|夹竹桃[jia1 zhu2 tao2]
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 夾, the traditional character: 夹 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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今天早上，我吃了面包夹黄油。
I ate bread and butter this morning.
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我不喜欢那件夹克。
I don't like this jacket.
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我丢了我的一个文件夹。
I have lost one of my folders.
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我们吃面包夹黄油。
We eat butter on bread.
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我到处都看了，可还是没找到我的皮夹。
I have looked everywhere, but I can not find my wallet.
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我的手被门夹到了。
I caught my finger in the door.