| 嚼 | |||
| prattle, be glib | |||
| Radical | 口 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 18 | Total Strokes | 21 |
| Mandarin reading |
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Cantonese reading | ziu6 zoek3 zoek6 |
| Japanese on reading | shaku | Japanese kun reading | kamu |
| Korean reading | cak | Vietnamese reading | |
| 嚼 | [ ] to chew, also pr. [jue2] |
| 嚼勁 | [ jìn ] chewiness |
| 嚼勁兒 | [ jìn ] chewiness |
| 嚼子 | [ zi ] bit, mouthpiece |
| 嚼舌 | [ shé ] to gossip, to argue unnecessarily |
| 嚼舌根 | [ shé gēn ] to gossip, to argue unnecessarily |
| 嚼舌頭 | [ shé toú ] to gossip, to argue unnecessarily |
| 嚼蠟 | [ là ] insipid |
| 嚼酒 | [ jiǔ ] alcoholic drink made by fermenting chewed rice |
| ⇒ 倒嚼 | [ daǒ ] to ruminate (of cows) |
| ⇒ 口嚼酒 | [ koǔ jiǔ ] alcoholic drink made by fermenting chewed rice |
| ⇒ 吃別人嚼過的饃不香 | [ chī bié rén guò de mó bù xiāng ] lit. bread previously chewed by someone has no flavor (idiom), fig. there's no joy in discovering something if someone else got there first |
| ⇒ 味同嚼蠟 | [ weì tóng là ] tastes as if one is chewing wax (idiom), tasteless, insipid |
| ⇒ 咀嚼 | [ jǔ jué ] to chew, to think over |
| ⇒ 咬嚼 | [ yaǒ ] to chew, to masticate, to ruminate, to mull over |
| ⇒ 咬文嚼字 | [ yaǒ wén zì ] to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording |
| ⇒ 細嚼慢嚥 | [ xì màn yàn ] to eat slowly (idiom) |
| ⇒ 貪多嚼不爛 | [ tān duō bù làn ] to bite off more than one can chew (idiom) |