niè

bite

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

齒 sound component

  Sound component

chǐ

  

teeth

Definitions

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niè

bite, gnaw; to gnaw; to erode

Most common words with 嚙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to gnaw

啮合

to engage

咬啮

to gnaw

啮齿目

order of rodents (rats, squirrels etc)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4400th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+5699


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