verb HSK 7-9 #4,196

Meanings

  1. 1 to mortgage
  2. 2 to pawn
  3. 3 to escort

Examples

Zūfáng xūyào jiāo yājīn.
Renting requires a security deposit.
Fànrén bèi yāsòng dào fǎyuàn.
The prisoner was escorted to court.

Tips

usage
Common in 押金 (yājīn, deposit) and 抵押 (dǐyā, mortgage).

Components

radical
shǒu
hand (radical form)
Hand radical on the left — also 's indexing radical (side-form of ). Direct semantic anchor: means to press down, detain, sign (), pawn (押金). All of these are hand-actions of imposing weight or marking. Same radical in (press), (grab), (detain), (carry).
phonetic
jiǎ
armor; first heavenly stem
Right side supplies the sound: jiǎ → yā with significant Old Chinese drift in initial and tone. The / pair is one of the harder phonetic links because the modern readings have separated; recognise the cluster (also yā 'duck', zhá, yā) and the connection re-emerges. No semantic flavour here from 'armor.'

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