Chinese Character 咀 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

咀 meaning[3] in English

To Chew.

To Masticate.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are mouth (口) , and and (且)

Its radical[1] is: (kou3) which means: Mouth, Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc), Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls, .kou3mouth

In cangjie it is written with RBM

How to write 咀

To writeju3to chew you should write a combination of kou3mouth , qie3and arranged in a shape:

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咀 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 咀 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:ju3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Chew . To Masticate

Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Pinyin:qie3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: And . Moreover . Yet . For The Time Being . To Be About To . Both (... And...)

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 咀in English or Chinese