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舔

tiǎn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

舔 (tiǎn) means "to lick; to lap". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 舔 means

1. to lick
2. to lap

Example sentences

• 也许你舔了它?
  Yěxǔ nǐ tiǎn le tā?
  Maybe you licked it?
• 其他人已经舔干净锅底了。
  The others have already licked the bottom of the pot.
• 生活就像是舔仙人掌上的蜂蜜。
  Shēnghuó jiù xiàng shì tiǎn xiānrénzhǎng shàng de fēngmì.
  Life is like licking honey off a cactus.
• 亲吻一个抽烟的人就像在舔烟灰缸。
  Qīnwěn yī gè chōuyān de rén jiù xiàng zài tiǎn yānhuīgāng.
  Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.

Words starting with 舔

• 舔狗tiǎn gǒu(neologism, attested by 2018) (slang) simp; person who resorts to cringeworthy fawning…
• 舔阴tiǎn yīnto perform cunnilingus
• 舔屁股tiǎn pì guto kiss sb's ass; to brown-nose
• 舔肛tiǎn gānganilingus; rimming
• 舔吮tiǎn shǔnto lick and suck
• 舔舐tiǎn shìto lick; to lap

Characters that look like 舔

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

• 睡shuìto sleep; to lie down
• 酪lào(bound form) semi-solid food made from milk (junket, cheese etc)…
• 蝠fú(bound form) bat
• 蜴yìused in 蜥蜴
• 鹕húused in 鹈鹕
• 幡fānbanner

Sounds the same

Read tiǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 腆make strong (as liquors); virtuous
• 殄to exterminate
• 餂to obtain by deception
• 忝to shame
• 㥏(literary) ashamed
• 晪(literary) bright
• 淟turbid; muddy
• 觍shameful; shameless
• 睓variant of 㥏

Where 舔 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tiǎn–tǐ (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.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tiǎn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.