narrow

Phonosemantic compound. 齿 represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
齿 meaning component

齿  Meaning component

chǐ

  

teeth

屋 sound component

  Sound component

  

house, room

Evolution

龌 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
龌 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

narrow, small; dirty; small-minded

Most common words with 龌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

龌龊

dirty

dirty

卑鄙龌龊

sordid and contemptible (idiom); vile and repulsive (esp. character or action)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2975% of movies

3306th most common character in movies

4509th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Traditional

Unicode

U+9F8C


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