鲠 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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gěng

fish bones

Components

鱼 Meaning component

yú

fish

更 Sound component

gèng, gēng

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

gěng

fish bones; honest, upright; to choke on a piece of food; (literary) a fish bone lodged in one's throat

Most common words with 鲠

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	鲠	blunt
	如鲠在喉	lit. as if having a fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom)
	骨鲠在喉	sth on one's mind
	骨鲠	fish bone
	鲠直	honest

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5612th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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