按

HSK 4#678 by frequencyradical 扌

àn["p","v"]

according to; in the light of; to press; to push; to control; to restrain; to keep one's hand on; to check or refer to; to leave aside or shelve; (of an editor or author) to make a comment

Examples

按住痛处。

Rub salt in the wound.

按两下铃。

Press the bell twice.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.