gnaw

Evolution

齕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
齕 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
齕 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
齕 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
齕 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

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gnaw, bite, nibble; (literary) to gnaw; to bite

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-[q]ˤət

hot

bite (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6851st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+9F55

Shuowen

“齕,齧也。从齒,气聲。”


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