压 (壓) yā

1. yā 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. yā 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. yā 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. yā verb to cover
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (NCCED '压' 2)
5. yā 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. yā 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. yā 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. yā 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. yā verb to take a risk
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (NCCED '压' 8)
10. yā noun fluid pressure
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Physics
    Notes: (NCCED '压' 9; Unihan '壓')

Contained in

• 压根(壓根) from the start; absolutely; entirely; simply
• 压岁钱(壓歲錢) money given to children as new year present
• 眼压(眼壓) intraocular pressure
• 脊椎指压治疗师(脊椎指壓治療師) chiropractor
• 压蒜器(壓蒜器) garlic press
• 减压症(減壓症) decompression sickness; the bends
• 高压线(高壓線) high tension power line
• 胎压(胎壓) tire pressure
• 高压氧治疗(高壓氧治療) hyperbaric medicine; hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT)
• 失调电压(失調電壓) offset voltage
• 减压表(減壓表) decompression table
• 压压脚儿(壓壓腳兒) to help out
• 高压氧(高壓氧) hyperbaric oxygen; hyperbaric oxygenation; hyperbaric therapy
• 压电体(壓電體) piezo-electric
• 白大衣高血压(白大衣高血壓) white coat hypertension; white coat syndrome
• 按压(按壓) to inhibit; to stiffle ; to shelve records
• 压车(壓車) to escort (goods) during transportation; to delay unloading
• 高压清洗机(高壓清洗機) high pressure washer
• 变压器(變壓器) transformer
• 压根儿(壓根兒) from the start
• 高压氧疗法(高壓氧療法) hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT)
• 以权压法(以權壓法) to abuse power to crush the law
• 高气压(高氣壓) high atmospheric pressure
• 气压(氣壓) atmospheric pressure; air pressure
• 水压(水壓) water pressure
• 液压千斤顶(液壓千斤頂) hydraulic jack
• 升压剂(升壓劑) vasopressor agent; antihypotensive agent
• 扣压(扣壓) to withhold; to hold something back (and prevent it being known)
• 层压(層壓) lamination
• 低压(低壓) low pressure ; low voltage
• 资料压缩(資料壓縮) data compression
• 打压(打壓) to suppress; to beat down
• 压力(壓力) pressure; force ; pressure; normal stress ; pressure; influence; intimidation ; the feeling of pressure; stress
• 负压(負壓) suction; negative pressure
• 等压线(等壓線) isobar (line of equal pressure)
• 减压程序(減壓程序) decompression schedule
• 创伤后压力紊乱(創傷後壓力紊亂) post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD
• 强压(強壓) to oppress
• 钻压(鑽壓) pressure on a drill bit
• 脊椎指压治疗医生(脊椎指壓治療醫生) chiropractor
• 弹压(彈壓) to suppress; to quell (a disturbance); repression
• 高压锅(高壓鍋) pressure cooker
• 压场(壓場) to hold the attention of an audience; to serve as the finale to a show
• 压力山大(壓力山大) (jocularly) to be under great pressure
• 压实(壓實) to compress; to compact
• 中压管(中壓管) medium pressure tube; middle pressure hose (diving)
• 加压釜(加壓釜) pressure chamber; pressurized cauldron
• 欺压(欺壓) to bully; to oppress
• 艺多不压身(藝多不壓身) it's always good to have more skills

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• 第三十三回 Chapter 33 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 17
• 第十四回 Chapter 14 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 7
• 第八回 Chapter 8 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
• 卷六十七 志第二十 五行五 Volume 67 Treatises 20: Five Elements 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 5
• 卷一百四十九 志第一百〇二 輿服一 Volume 149 Treatises 102: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 5
• 卷一百六十八 志第一百二十一 職官八 Volume 168 Treatises 121: Offical Posts 8 History of Song 宋史 — count: 5
• 卷七十八　志第二十八: 　輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 5
• 卷六十七 志第四十三 輿服三 Volume 67 Treatises 43: Carriages and Clothing 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 4
• 第三十五回 Chapter 35 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 4
• 第三十四回 Chapter 34 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 4

Collocations

• 摈压 (擯壓) 擯壓窮巷 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷四十二 蜀書十二　　杜周杜許孟來尹李譙郤傳 Volume 42: Book of Shu 12 - Biographies of Du, Zhou, Du, Xu, Meng, Lai, Yin, Li, Qiao, and Xi — count: 7
• 晨压 (晨壓) 楚晨壓晉軍而陳 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 7
• 压杀 (壓殺) 盡壓殺臥者 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《外戚世家》 Houses of the External Relatives — count: 7
• 崩压 (崩壓) 崩壓殺數百人 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十七下 外戚傳 Volume 97a: The Empresses and Imperial Affines 2 — count: 6
• 压卵 (壓卵) 泰山壓卵 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷七十一 列傳第四十一 孫惠 熊遠 王鑒 陳頵 高崧 Volume 71 Biographies 41: Sun Hui; Xiong Yuan; Wang Jian; Chen Yun; Gao Song — count: 6
• 压纽 (壓紐) 壓紐 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《楚世家》 House of Chu — count: 5
• 压杀人 (壓殺人) 壓殺人眾 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九 元帝紀 Volume 9: Annals of Emperor Yuan — count: 5
• 山压 (山壓) 回山壓卵 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷八十五 列傳第五十五 劉毅 諸葛長民 何無忌 檀憑之 魏詠之 Volume 85 Biographies 55: Liu Yi; Zhuge Changmin; He Wuji; Tan Pingzhi; Wei Yongzhi — count: 4
• 压额 (壓額) 或用方材壓額及踝脛 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷九十四 列傳第五十四 恩倖 Volume 94 Biographies 54: En Xing — count: 4
• 压境 (壓境) 則城壞壓境 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷五十一 列傳第十一 宗室 Volume 51 Biographies 11: Zong shi — count: 4