押

to mortgage / to pawn / to detain in custody / to escort and protect / (literary) to sign

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°

to provide (an asset) as security for a loan / to put up collateral

to imprison / to lock up (in jail)

to detain / to hold in custody / to distrain / to seize property

security (property held against a loan) / mortgaged property

collateral (finance)

to adjourn / to defer

to apply to a court for an arrest warrant

mortgage crisis

see 典當|典当[dian3 dang4]

mortgage loan

to play yabao (a gambling game) / (fig.) to gamble on / to take one's chance / to try one's luck

to restrict to even tone (i.e. final rhyming syllable must be classical first or second tone 平聲|平声)