limp

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
尢 meaning component

  Meaning component

yóuwāng

  

lame

介 sound component

  Sound component

jiè

  

to lie between

Evolution

尬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
尬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

limp, staggering gait; embarrass; embarrassing; awkwardly

Most common words with 尬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

尴尬

awkward

awkwardly

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.4482% of movies

1810th most common character in movies

2729th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5C2C

Shuowen

“也,从尣介聲。”


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