chái

to show the teeth

Components
齒 meaning component

  Meaning component

chǐ

  

teeth

teeth

此 sound component

  Sound component

  

this

Evolution

齜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
齜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

chái

to show the teeth; crooked teeth

() 

projecting teeth; to bare one's teeth

Most common words with 齜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

projecting teeth

龇牙咧嘴

to grimace (in pain)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4525th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

Unicode

U+9F5C

Shuowen

“齜,齒相齗也。一曰開口見齒之皃。从齒,柴省聲。讀若柴。”


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