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叼

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to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)

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Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
5
Radical
口 +2
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
叼
Common rank
#4,893
Unicode
U+53FC

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Formation & memory

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How 叼 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

口 meaning “mouth” + 刁 sound ( diāo )

Components 口 刁

How to remember it

hold in the mouth · Heisig RSH #2815

口 mouth + 刁 wily

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 叼

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
胡叼盘 Hú Diāo pán derogatory nickname given to Hu Xijin 胡錫進|胡锡进[Hu2 Xi1 jin4] for doing the CCP's bidding as…
叼盘 diāo pán (of a dog) to hold a frisbee in its mouth; (fig.) derogatory nickname given to Hu Xijin 胡錫…