Character: 壓
Modern (Beijing) reading: yā
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʔrāp
Classic Old Chinese: ʔrāp
Western Han Chinese: ʔrāp
Eastern Han Chinese: ʔrāp
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʔạ̄p
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʔạ̄p
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʔạ̄p
Middle Chinese: ʔạp
English meaning : to press,compress;get close,approach [L.Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) давить, жать; угнетать; 2) гнуть, сгибать; 3) прикрыть; отставить, отменить
Comments: Cf. also Viet. ẹp 'crushed, flattened' (probably borrowed from the same source). Regular Sino-Viet. is áp.
Radical: 32
Four-angle index: 213
Karlgren code: 0616 h
Go-on: efu
Kan-on: afu
Vietnamese reading: ép
