gē
armpit
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound. Simplified form of 肐.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[C.q]ˤak | kak | gē | armpit |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 10.5078% of movies
1966th most common character in movies
2490th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+80F3 |
Shuowen | “胳,亦下也。从肉,各聲。” |
Sources
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