腮 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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sāi

lower part of face

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 思 represents the sound. Simplified form of 顋.

Components

⺼ Meaning component

ròu

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

思 Sound component

sī

think

Definitions

sāi

lower part of face; jaw; gills of a fish; cheek

sāi

variant of 腮[sāi]

Most common words with 腮

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3185th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	13
Unicode	U+816E

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