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枷 jiā

noun
: cangue OR cha (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)
[a device that was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in China and some other parts of East Asia and Southeast Asia until the early years of the twentieth century. It was also occasionally used for or during torture]

Kun Reading

枷 | かせ kase

noun
: shackles; fetters; irons; handcuffs; restraint; constraint
: bonds (e.g. family); ties; binding relationship; binding relationships; encumbrance

On Reading

カ ka

 Usage:

枷鎖[锁] jia1suo3: stocks and chain; in fetters
枷板 jia1ban3: cangue; fig. difficult situation
枷銷[销] jia1xiao1: yoke; chains; shackles; fetters
枷帶鎖抓 [枷带锁抓] jia1 dai4 suo3 zhua: in stocks; in fetter for punishment
連[连]枷 lian2jia1: flail [連枷 | からさお karasao OR からざお karazao: flail (for threshing grain)]
麥[麦]枷 mai4jia1: flail; to thresh (using a flail)
足枷 zu2jia1: hobbles [あしかせ ashikase: fetters; shackles; hobbles; encumbrance, hindrance or burden; trap]
首枷 shou3jia1: cangue [くびかせ kubikase: pillory; burden]



Japanese common word | expression | yojijukugo 四字熟語 | idiom
口枷 | くちかせ kuchikase: (vulgar) (mouth) gag; muzzle

手枷足枷 | てかせあしかせ tekase ashikase
: (yoji) manacles; shackles; fetters

子は三界の首枷 | こはさんがいのくびかせ ko wa sangai no kubikase
: A child is an everlasting responsibility to parents

 Etymology:
形声 Pictophonetic.
(mu4: tree radical 75) suggests the meaning while
(jia1: to add) provides the sound.



 Examples:
none applicable

Resources: Chinese Dictionary | Japanese Dictionary