齧 — Chinese character
齧
niè
to bite, to gnaw; to erode, to wear down
- Pinyin
- niè
- Radical
- 211 ⿒ (Tooth)
- Strokes
- 21
- Components
- 㓞 齒
- Formation
- pictophonetic — teeth; meaning component 齒; sound component 㓞
- Simplified
- 𫜩
- Japanese
- 齧 as a kanji
齧 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 12
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi How to Govern
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
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.