chuò

narrow

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and 齿 represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
足 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

foot

齿 sound component

齿  Sound component

chǐ

  

teeth

Evolution

龊 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
龊 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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chuò

narrow, small; dirty; filthy; base; mean; narrow-minded; petty

Most common words with 龊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

龌龊

dirty

dirty

卑鄙龌龊

sordid and contemptible (idiom); vile and repulsive (esp. character or action)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2814% of movies

3313th most common character in movies

4430th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Traditional

Unicode

U+9F8A


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