jiào

chew

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

焦 sound component

  Sound component

jiāo

  

burned

Evolution

噍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
噍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
噍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jiào

chew; eat; munch; to chew

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]ewk-s

dzjewH

jiào

chew


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6900th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+564D

Shuowen

“噍,齧也。从口,焦聲。嚼,噍或从爵。”


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