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嚼

jiáo

HSK 6 Character

What 嚼 means

1. to chew
2. also pr. jué

Other readings

嚼 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• jiàoused in {倒嚼|dǎo jiào}

Example sentences

• 我嚼口香糖。
  Wǒ jiáo kǒuxiāngtáng.
  I'm chewing gum.
• 我咀嚼困难。
  I have difficulty chewing.
• 汤姆嚼铅笔。
  Tom chewed on his pencil.
• 我不太能嚼东西。
  I have difficulty chewing.
• 她在嚼口香糖，是吗？
  Tā zài jiáo kǒuxiāngtáng, shì ma?
  She's chewing gum, isn't she?
• 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 嚼

• 嚼劲jiáo jìnchewiness
• 嚼子jiáo zibit; mouthpiece
• 嚼舌jiáo shéto gossip; to argue unnecessarily
• 嚼蜡jiáo làinsipid
• 嚼酒jiáo jiǔalcoholic drink made by fermenting chewed rice
• 嚼头jiáo touchewiness; (fig.) substance; depth; something to chew on (in a novel, movie etc)
• 嚼劲儿jiáo jìn rchewiness
• 嚼舌根jiáo shé gēnto gossip; to argue unnecessarily
• 嚼舌头jiáo shé tóuto gossip; to argue unnecessarily

Words containing 嚼

• 咀嚼jǔ juéto chew; to think over
• 咬文嚼字yǎo wén jiáo zìto bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording
• 倒嚼dǎo jiào(of cows) to ruminate
• 咬嚼yǎo jiáoto chew; to masticate; to ruminate
• 口嚼酒kǒu jiáo jiǔalcoholic drink made by fermenting chewed rice
• 咀嚼肌jǔ jué jī(anatomy) muscles of mastication
• 味同嚼蜡wèi tóng jiáo làlit. tastes as if one is chewing wax (idiom); fig. tasteless; insipid
• 细嚼慢咽xì jiáo màn yànto eat slowly (idiom)
• 贪多嚼不烂tān duō jiáo bù lànto bite off more than one can chew (idiom)
• 吃别人嚼过的馍不香chī bié rén jiáo guò de mó bù xiānglit. bread previously chewed by someone has no flavor (idiom)…

Characters that look like 嚼

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 壤rǎng(bound form) soil; earth; (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven 天
• 嚷rǎngto shout; to bellow; to make a big deal of sth
• 癣xuǎnringworm; Taiwan pr. xiǎn
• 獾huānbadger
• 嚯huò(onomatopoeia) expressing admiration or surprise; (onomatopoeia) sound of a laugh
• 礴bóused in 磅礴

Sounds the same

Read jiáo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 矫used in 矫情