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咀嚼

jǔ jué

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

咀嚼 (jǔ jué) means "to chew; to think over". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 咀嚼 means

1. to chew
2. to think over

The characters in 咀嚼

• 咀jǔto chew; to masticate
• 嚼jiáoto chew; also pr. jué

Example sentences

• 我咀嚼困难。
  I have difficulty chewing.
• 食物在吞咽前要经过咀嚼。
  Shíwù zài tūnyàn qián yào jīngguò jǔjué.
  Food should be chewed before being swallowed.

Words starting with 咀嚼

• 咀嚼肌jǔ jué jī(anatomy) muscles of mastication

Where 咀嚼 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jù–jǔ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jǔ jué correctly.
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