啮 — Chinese character
啮
niè
to bite, to gnaw
- Pinyin
- niè
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 口 齿
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 齿
- Traditional
- 嚙
Common words with 啮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 啮合 (嚙合) | niè hé | (of opposing teeth, or gears) to mesh; to engage |
| 啮齿动物 (嚙齒動物) | niè chǐ dòng wù | rodent |
| 啮齿类 (囓齒類) | niè chǐ lèi | rodents |
| 咬啮 (咬嚙) | yǎo niè | to gnaw |
| 咬啮 (咬齧) | yǎo niè | variant of 咬啮 (yǎo niè); to gnaw |
| 啮齿目 (嚙齒目) | niè chǐ mù | order of rodents (rats, squirrels etc) |
| 穷鼠啮狸 (窮鼠嚙狸) | qióng shǔ niè lí | a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on |
| 啮咬 (齧咬) | niè yǎo | to gnaw |
English words written with 啮
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.