腮
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cheek
13 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,558 U+816E
How 腮 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺼ (semantic, “flesh”) + 思 (phonetic, sī)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 思
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 思 (sī) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 思 sound component | sī | to think, to ponder, to consider; final particle |
| 鳃 | sāi | fish gills |
| 缌 | sī | fine linen |
| 葸 | xǐ | afraid, bashful, insecure |
| 锶 | sī | strontium |
Words containing 腮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 落腮胡子 | luò sāi hú zi | variant of 絡腮鬍子|络腮胡子[luo4 sai1 hu2 zi5] |
| 麻腮风 | má sāi fēng | measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) (abbr. for 麻疹[ma2 zhen3] + 流行性腮腺炎[liu2 xing2 xing4 sai1 x… |
| 络腮胡子 | luò sāi hú zi | full beard |
| 桃腮粉脸 | táo sāi fěn liǎn | rosy-cheeked (idiom) |
| 发腮 | fā sāi | (of a cat) to develop a fuller, rounder face; (by extension, of a human) to develop a broa… |
| 腮红 | sāi hóng | rouge (cosmetics) |
| 腮帮子 | sāi bāng zi | cheek |
| 托腮 | tuō sāi | to rest one's chin in one's hand |
| 腮托 | sāi tuō | chin rest (e.g. for a violin) |
| 腮腺炎 | sāi xiàn yán | mumps |
| 腮胡 | sāi hú | sideburns |
| 杏脸桃腮 | xìng liǎn táo sāi | (idiom) (of a woman) having a fair complexion with rosy cheeks; beautiful |
| 笨嘴拙腮 | bèn zuǐ zhuō sāi | see 笨嘴拙舌[ben4 zui3 zhuo1 she2] |
| 抓耳挠腮 | zhuā ěr náo sāi | to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustr… |
| 腮腺 | sāi xiàn | parotid gland; saliva gland in cheek |
| 腮帮 | sāi bāng | cheek; upper (of a shoe) |
| 腮颊 | sāi jiá | cheek; jaw |