抢
搶qiāng
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(literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage)
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
抢 joins 扌 hand with 仓 cāng as the sound part. It first meant 'to touch, strike'. From there it grew to 'to snatch, steal' and 'to rush, hustle'. Read qiāng, it means 'to bump up against'.
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