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咼: chat; mouth | lopsided

By October 16, 2014January 16th, 2017Chinese Word, Language-Learning

 

咼 guō


: chat, jaw, gossip, talk; puckered mouth

咼 wāi


: lopsided


Kun Reading
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On Reading
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 Usage:
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 Etymology:
形声 Associative Compound.
Possibly a bone (gua3: skeleton) around the
mouth 口 (kuo3: mouth; entrance)

This character occurs in a number of characters to give the sounds guo or huo. Not in modern use as an independent character


簡體 Simplified.
呙. Created as generic radical #14 (咼 » 呙).


 Examples:
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Resources: Chinese Dictionary | Japanese Dictionary