| 腮 | |||
| lower part of face; jaw; gills of a fish | |||
| Radical | 肉 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 9 | Total Strokes | 13 |
| Mandarin reading | saī | Cantonese reading | soi1 |
| Japanese on reading | sai | Japanese kun reading | ago era |
| Korean reading | Vietnamese reading | ||
| Semantic Variant(s) | 顋 | ||
| 腮 | [ saī ] cheek |
| 腮幫 | [ saī bāng ] cheek, upper (of a shoe) |
| 腮幫子 | [ saī bāng zi ] cheek |
| 腮托 | [ saī tuō ] chin rest (e.g. for a violin) |
| 腮紅 | [ saī hóng ] rouge (cosmetics) |
| 腮腺 | [ saī xiàn ] parotid gland, saliva gland in cheek |
| 腮腺炎 | [ saī xiàn yán ] mumps |
| 腮頰 | [ saī jiá ] cheek, jaw |
| 腮鬍 | [ saī hú ] sideburns |
| ⇒ 托腮 | [ tuō saī ] to rest one's chin in one's hand |
| ⇒ 抓耳撓腮 | [ zhuā ěr naó saī ] to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom) |
| ⇒ 桃腮粉臉 | [ taó saī fěn liǎn ] rosy-cheeked (idiom) |
| ⇒ 笨嘴拙腮 | [ bèn zuǐ zhuō saī ] see 笨嘴拙舌[ben4 zui3 zhuo1 she2] |
| ⇒ 絡腮鬍子 | [ luò saī hú zi ] full beard |
| ⇒ 落腮鬍子 | [ luò saī hú zi ] variant of 絡腮鬍子|络腮胡子[luo4 sai1 hu2 zi5] |