嚼 — Chinese character
嚼
jué
to prattle, to be glib
- Pinyin
- jué
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 20
- Components
- 口 爵
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 爵
- Japanese
- 嚼 as a kanji
Common words with 嚼
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 咀嚼 | jǔ jué | to chew; to think over |
| 咬文嚼字 | yǎo wén jiáo zì | to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording |
| 细嚼慢咽 (細嚼慢嚥) | xì jiáo màn yàn | to eat slowly (idiom) |
| 嚼舌根 | jiáo shé gēn | to gossip; to argue unnecessarily |
| 嚼舌头 (嚼舌頭) | jiáo shé tóu | to gossip; to argue unnecessarily |
| 味同嚼蜡 (味同嚼蠟) | wèi tóng jiáo là | lit. tastes as if one is chewing wax (idiom); fig. tasteless; insipid |
| 咬嚼 | yǎo jiáo | to chew; to masticate |
| 嚼子 | jiáo zi | bit; mouthpiece |
| 嚼舌 | jiáo shé | to gossip; to argue unnecessarily |
| 倒嚼 | dǎo jiào | (of cows) to ruminate |
| 口嚼酒 | kǒu jiáo jiǔ | alcoholic drink made by fermenting chewed rice |
| 咀嚼肌 | jǔ jué jī | (anatomy) muscles of mastication |
English words written with 嚼
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.