咬

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

• KangXi: 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, OC *kreːw, *ŋɡreːwʔ, *qreːw) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 交 (OC *kreːw).

(oral sex): Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 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。 [MSC, trad.]
   一条狗咬了他的腿。 [MSC, simp.]

   Yī tiáo gǒu yǎo le tā de tuǐ. [Pinyin]

   A dog snapped at his leg.

   他被響尾蛇咬過。／他被响尾蛇咬过。  ―  Tā bèi xiǎngwěishé yǎo guò.  ―  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。 [MSC, trad.]
   他站在被告席上，什么都招认，什么人都咬。 [MSC, simp.]

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

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

3. to articulate; to pronounce

   這個字他咬得很准 [MSC, trad.]
   这个字他咬得很准 [MSC, simp.]

   zhè ge zì tā yǎo dé hěn zhǔn [Pinyin]

   He can pronounce this word correctly.

4. to be nitpicking on words

   別老咬住我那句話不放 [MSC, trad.]
   别老咬住我那句话不放 [MSC, simp.]

   bié lǎo yǎo zhù wǒ nà jù huà bù fàng [Pinyin]

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

5. (of dog) to bark
6. (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–
• “Entry #4789”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(uncommon “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

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