| 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 | |
| 嚼劲 | [ jìn ] chewiness |
| 嚼劲儿 | [ jìn ] chewiness |
| 嚼舌头 | [ shé toú ] to gossip, to argue unnecessarily |
| 嚼蜡 | [ là ] insipid |
| ⇒ 吃别人嚼过的馍不香 | [ 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 |
| ⇒ 味同嚼蜡 | [ weì tóng là ] tastes as if one is chewing wax (idiom), tasteless, insipid |
| ⇒ 细嚼慢咽 | [ xì màn yàn ] to eat slowly (idiom) |
| ⇒ 贪多嚼不烂 | [ tān duō bù làn ] to bite off more than one can chew (idiom) |