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颚

è

Character Traditional 顎

What 颚 means

1. jaw
2. palate

Example sentences

• 舌头和上颚都是味觉器官。
  Shétou hé shàng'è dōu shì wèijué qìguān.
  The tongue and the palate are the taste organs.

Words starting with 颚

• 颚裂è liècleft palate (birth defect)
• 颚部è bùjaw
• 颚龈音è yín yīnprepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics); palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)

Words containing 颚

• 下颚xià èmandible (lower jaw)
• 小颚xiǎo èmandible (lower jaw)
• 毒颚dú èforcipules (the venomous pair of pincer-like appendages of a centipede)
• 唇颚裂chún è liècleft lip and palate
• 上颚正门齿shàng è zhèng mén chǐmaxillary central incisor
• 齿颚矫正学chǐ è jiǎo zhèng xué(Taiwan) orthodontics
• 龈颚音yín è yīnprepalatal sound (linguistics)

Characters built on 咢

These share the phonetic component 咢 (è), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 鳄è(bound form) alligator; crocodile
• 鄂Èsurname E; short name for Hubei 湖北
• 愕èstartled
• 腭èpalate; roof of the mouth
• 谔èhonest speech
• 萼ècalyx of a flower
• 鹗è(bird species of China) osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
• 锷èblade edge; sharp

Characters that look like 颚

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

• 颗kēclassifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc
• 戮lùto peel with a knife; old variant of 戮
• 镖biāodart-like throwing weapon; goods sent under the protection of an armed escort
• 憋biēto choke; to stifle; to restrain
• 憩qìto rest
• 镒yìancient unit of weight equal to 20 or 24 liang 两

Sounds the same

Read è, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 饿hungry; to starve (sb)
• 恶evil; fierce; vicious
• 遏to restrain; to check; to hold back
• 厄distressed
• 呃(exclamation); to hiccup
• 萼calyx of a flower
• 锷blade edge; sharp
• 鳄(bound form) alligator; crocodile
• 愕startled
• 噩startling
• 扼to grip forcefully; to clutch at; to guard
• 轭yoke