舐 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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shì

lick with tongue

Phonosemantic compound. 舌 represents the meaning and 氏 represents the sound.

Components

舌 Meaning component

shé

tongue

氏 Sound component

shì, zhī

clan

Definitions

shì

lick with tongue; to lick; to lap (up)

Most common words with 舐

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	舐	to lick
	舐犊情深	lit. the cow licking its calf fondly (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*Cə.leʔ	zyeX	shì	lick

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4344th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	10
Unicode	U+8210

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