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胳

gē

armpit

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound. Simplified form of 肐.

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

各 sound component

各  Sound component

gè

  

each

Evolution

胳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
胳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

胳  

gē

armpit, arms; armpit

胳 (肐) 

gē

variant of 胳[gē]

Most common words with 胳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

胳膊

arm

胳臂

arm

胳膊肘

elbow

胳

variant of 胳[gē]

胳肢

(dialect) to tickle

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[C.q]ˤak

kak

gē

armpit


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.5078% of movies

1966th most common character in movies

2490th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+80F3

Shuowen

“胳，亦下也。从肉，各聲。”


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