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Chinese symbol for “chattering”

嚅
rú
chattering

The closest CC-CEDICT match for chattering is 嚅 (rú), defined as: chattering.

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Characters and stroke order

嚅 rú
to mumble, to stutter
radical 30 ⼝ · 17 strokes

Other Chinese words for “chattering”

WordPinyinMeaning
嘁嘁喳喳qī qi chā chāchattering
嗹liánchattering

Related words

Other words that share a character with 嚅.

WordPinyinMeaning
嗫嚅 (囁嚅)niè rúto stammer; to mumble
呫嚅chè rúto whisper
趑趄嗫嚅 (趑趄囁嚅)zī jū niè rúfaltering steps, mumbling speech (idiom); hesitant; cringing
趦趄嗫嚅 (趦趄囁嚅)zī jū niè rúfaltering steps; mumbling speech

See also: Japanese symbol for “chattering”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.