/ / zhá
verb #15,872

Meanings

  1. 1 to jostle in a crowd (dialect)
  2. 2 to make friends (dialect)
  3. 3 to check (accounts) (dialect)

Examples

人堆
Bié wǎng rénduī lǐ gá.
Don't go jostling into that crowd.
Kuàijì měi yuèdǐ dōu gá zhàng.
The accountant balances the books at the end of every month.

Tips

usage
gá is a Wu-dialect (Shanghai-area) reading heard in 轧朋友 (to make friends), 轧闹猛 (to join a lively crowd), and 轧账 (to reconcile accounts). It rarely appears in standard written Mandarin.

Components

radical
chē
cart; vehicle
on the left is the vehicle radical, simplified from , a top-down picture of a cart with wheels and axle. It supplies the meaning of directly: to crush is to roll a heavy wheeled thing over something. Same family: to turn, to transport.
phonetic
bend; hidden (variant of 乙)
on the right is a variant of , supplying the sound yǐ which shifted to yà. The single curved stroke also reads visually like the long sweep of a wheel pressing down and rolling forward.

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