咬

咬 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口卜金大 (RYCK), four-corner 6004₈, composition ⿰口交)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 186, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3543
• Dae Jaweon: page 406, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 621, character 2
• Unihan data for U+54AC

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kreːw, *ŋɡreːwʔ, *qreːw): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 交 (OC *kreːw).

(oral sex): Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 口 + 交.

Perhaps Sino-Tibetan; compare Chepang ङेव्‍ह्‌सा (ŋewh-, “to nibble”) (Schuessler, 2007). The Min vernacular readings are reminiscent of Proto-Tai *giəwꟲ (“to chew”), whence Thai เคี้ยว (kíao) (ibid.).

咬

1. to bite; to snap at; to gnaw

   一條狗咬了他的腿。
   一条狗咬了他的腿。

   Yī tiáo gǒu yǎole tā de tuǐ.

   A dog snapped at his leg.

   他被響尾蛇咬過。
   他被响尾蛇咬过。

   Tā bèi xiǎngwěishé yǎoguo.

   He had been bitten by a rattlesnake.

2. to incriminate; to accuse

   他站在被告席上，什麼都招認，什麼人都咬。
   他站在被告席上，什么都招认，什么人都咬。

   Tā zhàn zài bèigào xí shàng, shénme dōu zhāorèn, shénme rén dōu yǎo.

   He was in the public dock, confessing everything, implicating everybody.

3. to articulate; to pronounce

   這個字他咬得很準。
   这个字他咬得很准。

   Zhè ge zì tā yǎo dé hěn zhǔn.

   He can pronounce this word correctly.

   • 1919, 《新舊約全書：官話和合譯本》 , Shanghai: American Bible Society, 士師記 12:6:

     就對他說、你說示播列．以法蓮人、因爲咬不眞字音、便說西播列．
     就对他说、你说示播列．以法莲人、因为咬不真字音、便说西播列．

     jiù duì tā shuō, Nǐ shuō shìbōliè. Yǐfǎliánrén, yīnwèi yǎobùzhēn zìyīn, biàn shuō xībōliè.

     they said to him, “Then say Shibboleth,” and he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. (English Standard Version)

4. to be nitpicking on words

   別老咬住我那句話不放。
   别老咬住我那句话不放。

   Bié lǎo yǎo zhù wǒ nà jù huà bù fàng.

   Don't keep nagging me about that remark of mine.

5. (of dog) to bark
6. (dialectal Mandarin, Jin) itchy
7. (neologism, slang, euphemistic) alternative form of 口交 (kǒujiāo, “oral sex; to perform oral sex on”)

咬

1. only used in 咬咬

咬

1. only used in 咬哇 and 哇咬

• “咬”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
• “咬”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• 李如龙 , 刘福铸 , 吴华英 , 黄国城 (2019) “咬”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 178.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}、ぎょう (gyō)^{←げう (geu, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}、ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kun: かむ (kamu, 咬む)

咬 • (gyo) (hangeul 교, revised gyo, McCune–Reischauer kyo, Yale kyo)

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咬: Hán Nôm readings: giảo, rao, ngẩu, ngấu, ngảo, ngảu, ngáu

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