Definitions
to butt; resist
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觝 is a phono-semantic compound that combines the horn radical 角 on the left (indicating horns or forceful physical contact) and the phonetic 氐 (dǐ) on the right, originally expressing butting, resisting, or pushing with horns, and later broadening from the literal action of animals butting heads to more abstract notions of resistance, contradiction, or pushing against something. It is a variant of the more common 抵, which uses the hand radical to convey similar meanings of pushing and resisting, and 牴, which has the same meaning and pronunciation but replaces 角 with the cow radical.
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