Chinese symbol for “gritty”
碜
chěn
Traditional: 磣
gritty (of food); unsightly
The closest CC-CEDICT match for gritty is 碜 (chěn), defined as: gritty (of food); unsightly.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “gritty”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 碜.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寒碜 (寒磣) | hán chen | ugly; shameful |
| 牙碜 (牙磣) | yá chen | gritty (of foodstuffs); fig. jarring speech |
| 砢碜 (砢磣) | kē chen | variant of 磕碜 (kē chen) |
| 磕碜 (磕磣) | kē chen | (dialect) ugly; unsightly; shabby; (dialect) to humiliate; to ridicule |
See also: Japanese symbol for “gritty”.
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.