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龇牙

zī yá

2-character word Traditional 齜牙

What 龇牙 means

1. to bare one's teeth

The characters in 龇牙

• 龇zīto bare (one's teeth)
• 牙yátooth; ivory

Words starting with 龇牙

• 龇牙咧嘴zī yá liě zuǐto grimace (in pain); to show one's teeth; to bare one's fangs

Sounds the same

Read zī yá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 滋芽(dialect) to sprout; to germinate
• 呲牙variant of 龇牙

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