U+631F "挟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+631F "挟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning to clasp under the arm, to hold between the fingers, to coerce, or to harbor resentment. In modern usage, it appears in various compounds such as 挟持 (to coerce or hold hostage) and 挟带 (to carry under one's arm or to smuggle), and it is composed of the hand radical 扌 alongside combined phonetic and semantic elements that evoke the act of grasping or pressing from both sides. This character is used across multiple East Asian writing systems, including Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese Kanji, where it carries similar meanings related to physical holding or figurative pressure. As a CJK Unified Ideograph, it is encoded in the Unicode standard to represent this specific written form for digital text processing.