niè

bite

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

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

齿 sound component

齿  Sound component

chǐ

  

teeth

Evolution

啮 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
啮 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

niè

bite, gnaw; to gnaw; to erode

() 

niè

variant of |[niè]

Most common words with 啮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to gnaw

啮合

to engage

咬啮

to gnaw

啮齿目

order of rodents (rats, squirrels etc)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4400th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+556E


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