嚼
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Translingual
    
    Han character
    
嚼 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+18, 21 strokes, cangjie input 口月田戈 (RBWI), four-corner 62046, composition ⿰口爵)
References
    
- KangXi: page 214, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4602
- Dae Jaweon: page 437, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 704, character 8
- Unihan data for U+56BC
Chinese
    
| simp. and trad. | 嚼 | |
|---|---|---|
| alternative forms | 𪚅/𬺖 噍 Cantonese (ziu6) 𡁻 Cantonese (ziu6) | |
Glyph origin
    
Characters in the same phonetic series (爵) (Zhengzhang, 2003)  
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zewɢ) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 爵 (OC *ʔsewɢ).
Etymology
    
Schuessler (2003) links 嚼 with Proto-Mon-Khmer *caʔ. Also compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzaʔ (“to eat”).
Pronunciation
    
Definitions
    
嚼
Synonyms
    
	Dialectal synonyms of 嚼 (“to chew”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words | 
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 咀嚼 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 嚼 | 
| Jinan | 嚼 | |
| Xi'an | 嚼 | |
| Wuhan | 嚼 | |
| Chengdu | 嚼 | |
| Yangzhou | 嚼 | |
| Hefei | 噍 | |
| Singapore | 嚼 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 噍 | 
| Hong Kong | 噍 | |
| Yangjiang | 唵 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 噍 | 
| Hakka | Meixian | 噍 | 
| Jin | Taiyuan | 咬, 喃 | 
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 哺 | 
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 嚼 | 
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 哺 | 
| Quanzhou | 哺 | |
| Zhangzhou | 哺 | |
| Taipei (Wanhua) | 哺 | |
| Kaohsiung | 哺 | |
| Yilan | 哺 | |
| Changhua (Lukang) | 哺 | |
| Taichung | 哺 | |
| Taichung (Wuqi) | 哺 | |
| Tainan | 哺 | |
| Taitung | 咬 | |
| Hsinchu | 哺 | |
| Penghu (Magong) | 哺 | |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 哺 | |
| Chaozhou | 哺 | |
| Jieyang | 哺 | |
| Leizhou | 哺 | |
| Haikou | 哺 | |
| Wu | Suzhou | 嚼 | 
| Wenzhou | 嚼 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 嚼, 噍 | 
| Shuangfeng | 嚼 | |
Compounds
    
Derived terms from 嚼
Japanese
    
    Kanji
    
嚼
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Korean
    
    Hanja
    
嚼 • (jak) (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune–Reischauer chak)
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Vietnamese
    
    
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