舌

See also 吉, 告, and 吿

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形), from a pictograph of a forked tongue emerging upwards from a mouth (口).

Also used as simplification of left component of 亂, as in 乱 and 辞.

	舌
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

舌 (radical 135 舌+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹十口 (HJR), four-corner 2060₄)

1. tongue
2. clapper of bell
3. KangXi radical 135

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/舌
• 乱 辞

References

• KangXi: page 1006, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30277
• Dae Jaweon: page 1463, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2941, character 1
• Unihan data for U+820C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

舌 (jyutping sit6, Yale sit6)

Synonyms

• 脷

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Hakka

Hanzi

舌 (POJ she̍t, Guangdong shat⁸ [Meixian], s'at⁷ [Hailu], set⁸, sat⁷ [Siyan], set⁸ [Bao'an, Dongguan], s'et⁸ [Kwangtung], Hagfa Pinyim sad6, sed6)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

舌 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Noun

舌 (hiragana した, romaji shita)

1. tongue

Readings

• On: ぜつ (zetsu), せつ (setsu)
• Kun: した (shita)

Compounds

• 舌音
• 舌下
• 舌禍
• 舌根
• 舌先
• 舌戦
• 舌尖
• 舌苔
• 舌端

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Korean

Hanja

舌 (hangeul 설, revised seol, McCune-Reischauer sŏl, Yale sel)

• Shift JIS:
  • Hex: 90E3
  • Decimal: 37091

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Mandarin

Hanzi

舌 (pinyin guā (gua1), shé (she2), Wade-Giles kua¹, she²)

Compounds

• 舌敝唇焦
• 舌根音
• 舌尖音
• 舌剑唇枪
• 舌面后音
• 舌面前音
• 舌苔
• 舌头
• 舌炎
• 舌音
• 舌战

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Vietnamese

Han character

舌 (thiệt, thịt)