按
Meaning
- to press
- to push
- to leave aside or shelve
Example sentence
按住痛处。
Rub salt in the wound.
The character 按
按 is 扌, a hand, beside 安: pressing down. 按一下 to press once, 按门铃 to ring a bell — and from following a line come 按照 and 按时, doing a thing to plan or on time.