嚼

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 Dictionary: 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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		嚼
alternative forms		𪚅／𬺖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (爵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
釂	*ʔsewɢs
皭	*ʔsewɢs, *zewɢ
爝	*ʔsewɢs, *ʔsewɢ, *zewɢ
爵	*ʔsewɢ
嚼	*zewɢ
穱	*ʔsreːwɢ
灂	*zreːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zewɢ) : semantic 口 + phonetic 爵 (OC *ʔsewɢ).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 嚼

1. to chew; to masticate; to crunch

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Japanese

Kanji

嚼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ざく (zaku)
• Kan-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kun: かむ (kamu)

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Korean

Hanja

嚼 • (jak) (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune–Reischauer chak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 嚼 (tước)

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