蹙

蹙 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 戈火口卜人 (IFRYO), four-corner 5380₁, composition ⿱戚足)

1. urgent, suddenly
2. grieve, lament

• 𡄱 𭟣 㰗 𰯫 䙯 𦇰 𩖑

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1232, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37790
• Dae Jaweon: page 1704, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3733, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8E59

蹙

1. to knit (one's brows)

   • 不由得蹙起眉頭 [MSC, trad.]
     不由得蹙起眉头 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1955, 金庸 (Jin Yong), 《書劍恩仇錄》 (The Book and the Sword)

     bùyóudé cù qǐ méitóu [Pinyin]

     [he] could not help but knit his brows

2. to approach; to close in on
3. to force; to compel
4. to shrink; to contract
5. urgent; critical
6. alternative form of 蹴 (“to tread on; to kick”)

(to urge):

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “蹙”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 107.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. knitting one's brows

• Go-on: すく (suku)
• Kan-on: しゅく (shuku)
• Kun: せまる (semaru, 蹙まる)、しじかむ (shijikamu, 蹙む)

蹙 • (chuk) (hangeul 축, revised chuk, McCune–Reischauer ch'uk, Yale chwuk)

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