suck

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

且 sound component

  Sound component

qiě

  

moreover

Evolution

咀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
咀 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
咀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

suck; chew, masticate; to chew; to masticate

Most common words with 咀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

咀嚼

to chew

to chew

含英咀华

to savor fine writing (idiom)

石咀山

Shijushan or Shizuishan (place name)

石咀山市

variant of Shizuishan 石嘴山市[Shí​zuǐ​shān​shì], prefecture level city in Ningxia on the border with Inner Mongolia

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3498th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5480

Shuowen

“咀,含味也。从口,且聲。”


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