鲠 — Chinese character
鲠
gěng
fish bones; honest, upright
- Pinyin
- gěng
- Radical
- 195 ⿂ (Fish)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 鱼 更
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fish; meaning component 鱼; sound component 更
- Traditional
- 鯁
Common words with 鲠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 如鲠在喉 (如鯁在喉) | rú gěng zài hóu | lit. as if having a fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom); fig. very upset and needing to express one's displeasure |
| 骨鲠在喉 (骨鯁在喉) | gǔ gěng zài hóu | fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom); fig. to feel obliged to speak out candidly; sth on one's mind |
| 鲠直 (鯁直) | gěng zhí | variant of 耿直 (gěng zhí) |
| 骨鲠 (骨鯁) | gǔ gěng | fish bone; bone stuck in the throat |
| 骨鲠之臣 (骨鯁之臣) | gǔ gěng zhī chén | lit. fish bone of a minister (idiom); fig. person one can rely on for candid criticism |
| 鲠喉 (鯁喉) | gěng hóu | to choke on a piece of food etc |
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.