压 (壓)

  1. verb to press
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Guoyu '壓' v 1; Kroll 2015 '壓' 1; NCCED '压' 1; Unihan '壓')
  2. verb to oppress
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: Especially using the threat of military or physical force (Guoyu '壓' v 2; Kroll 2015 '壓' 1a; NCCED '压' 3; Unihan '壓')
  3. noun pressure
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 压力 (Guoyu '壓' n; NCCED '压' 9; Unihan '壓')
  4. verb to cover
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (NCCED '压' 2)
  5. verb to restrain; to control; to stabilize
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 使稳定 (Guoyu '壓' v 4; Kroll 2015 '壓' 1b; NCCED '压' 4)
  6. verb to prevail; to surpass
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 超越 (Guoyu '壓' v 6; NCCED '压' 5)
  7. verb to approach; to draw close to
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 迫近; for example, the idiom 大军压境 'a huge military force near the border' (Guoyu '壓' v 3; Kroll 2015 '壓' 2; NCCED '压' 6)
  8. verb to shelve; to lay aside
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 搁置 (Guoyu '壓' v 5; NCCED '压' 7)
  9. verb to take a risk
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (NCCED '压' 8)
  10. noun fluid pressure
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Physics
    Notes: (NCCED '压' 9; Unihan '壓')

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