腮 — Chinese character
腮
sāi
jaw; gills
- Pinyin
- sāi
- Radical
- 130 ⾁ (Meat)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 思
- Formation
- pictophonetic — flesh; meaning component ⺼; sound component 思
- Japanese
- 腮 as a kanji
Common words with 腮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 腮红 (腮紅) | sāi hóng | rouge (cosmetics) |
| 腮腺炎 | sāi xiàn yán | mumps |
| 腮腺 | sāi xiàn | parotid gland; saliva gland in cheek |
| 络腮胡子 (絡腮鬍子) | luò sāi hú zi | full beard |
| 腮帮子 (腮幫子) | sāi bāng zi | cheek |
| 抓耳挠腮 (抓耳撓腮) | zhuā ěr náo sāi | to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom) |
| 腮帮 (腮幫) | sāi bāng | cheek; upper (of a shoe) |
| 托腮 | tuō sāi | to rest one's chin in one's hand |
| 杏脸桃腮 (杏臉桃腮) | xìng liǎn táo sāi | (idiom) (of a woman) having a fair complexion with rosy cheeks; beautiful |
| 桃腮粉脸 (桃腮粉臉) | táo sāi fěn liǎn | rosy-cheeked (idiom) |
| 发腮 (發腮) | fā sāi | (of a cat) to develop a fuller, rounder face; (by extension, of a human) to develop a broader, fuller lower face |
| 笨嘴拙腮 | bèn zuǐ zhuō sāi | see 笨嘴拙舌 (bèn zuǐ zhuō shé) |
English words written with 腮
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.