This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

The space between 夹 two mountains 山; 夹 also provides the pronunciation

  • 峡 gorge, ravine, strait; isthmus xiá
    • 山 mountain, hill, peak shān
    • 夹 to support; to be wedged between jiā
      • 夫 man, husband; worker; those fú
        • 一 one; a, an; alone yī
        • 大 big, great, vast, high, deep dà
      • 丷 kwukyel ha

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