齿 — Chinese character
齿
chǐ
teeth; gears, cogs; age
- Pinyin
- chǐ
- Radical
- 211 ⿒ (Tooth)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 止 凵 人
- Formation
- pictographic — Teeth 人凵; 止 provides the pronunciation
- Traditional
- 齒
Common words with 齿
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 牙齿 (牙齒) | yá chǐ | tooth; dental |
| 齿轮 (齒輪) | chǐ lún | (machine) gear; pinion (gear wheel) |
| 不齿 (不齒) | bù chǐ | to despise; to hold in contempt |
| 锯齿 (鋸齒) | jù chǐ | sawtooth |
| 咬牙切齿 (咬牙切齒) | yǎo yá qiè chǐ | (idiom) to gnash one's teeth; to fume with rage |
| 难以启齿 (難以啟齒) | nán yǐ qǐ chǐ | to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom); to find it hard to speak about sth |
| 犬齿 (犬齒) | quǎn chǐ | canine tooth |
| 臼齿 (臼齒) | jiù chǐ | molar tooth |
| 齿轮箱 (齒輪箱) | chǐ lún xiāng | gearbox |
| 启齿 (啟齒) | qǐ chǐ | to open one's mouth; to start talking |
| 智齿 (智齒) | zhì chǐ | wisdom tooth |
| 口齿 (口齒) | kǒu chǐ | mouth and teeth; enunciation |
English words written with 齿
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.