咀

See also: 嘴

咀 U+5480, 咀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5480 ← 呿 [U+547F] CJK Unified Ideographs 咁 → [U+5481]

Translingual

Han character

咀 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口月一 (RBM), four-corner 6701₀, composition ⿰口且)

1. suck
2. chew, masticate

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 184, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3476
• Dae Jaweon: page 403, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 599, character 17
• Unihan data for U+5480

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 咀
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

	Old Chinese
虘	*zaːl, *zaː
蔖	*zlaːl, *sʰaːʔ
摣	*rnaː, *ʔsraː
袓	*ʔsjaː, *zaʔ
怚	*ʔsjaː, *ʔsas, *zaʔ
罝	*ʔsjaː
謯	*ʔslja, *ʔsraːʔ
姐	*ʔsjaːʔ
抯	*ʔsljaːʔ, *ljaːʔ, *ʔsraː
飷	*ʔsjaːʔ
且	*sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa
趄	*sʰjaːs, *sʰa
笡	*sʰjaːs
查	*ʔsraː, *zraː, *zraː
柤	*ʔsraː
樝	*ʔsraː
皻	*ʔsraː
渣	*ʔsraː
楂	*zraː
苴	*zraː, *ʔsa, *ʔsaʔ, *sʰa
駔	*ʔslaːŋʔ, *zaːʔ
租	*ʔsaː
蒩	*ʔsaː, *ʔsaːʔ, *sʰa
祖	*ʔsaːʔ
組	*ʔsaːʔ
珇	*ʔsaːʔ
靻	*ʔsaːʔ
粗	*sʰaː, *zaːʔ
徂	*zaː
殂	*zaː
麆	*zaːʔ, *zras
伹	*zaːʔ, *sʰa
蛆	*ʔsa, *sʰa
沮	*ʔsa, *ʔsas, *sʰa, *zaʔ, *ʔsra
咀	*ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ
疽	*sʰa
雎	*sʰa
狙	*sʰa, *sʰas
岨	*sʰa
砠	*sʰa
坥	*sʰa, *sʰas
刞	*sʰas
覰	*sʰas
覷	*sʰas
跙	*zaʔ
筯	*das
菹	*ʔsra
葅	*ʔsra
阻	*ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras
俎	*ʔsraʔ
詛	*ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras
鉏	*zra, *zraʔ
豠	*zra
鋤	*zra
耡	*zra, *zras
齟	*zraʔ
助	*zras

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ): semantic 口 (“speech”) + phonetic 且 (OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		咀

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzaʔ (“to eat; food; to feed; rice”); cognate with Tibetan ཟ (za, “to eat”), Burmese စား (ca:, “to eat”), Chepang [script needed] (jeʔ-sa, “to eat”), Japhug ndza (“to eat”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Zhang, Jacques and Lai, 2019). Possibly related to 餐 (OC *sʰaːn, “to eat; meal”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	咀	咀
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	慈吕切	子與切
Baxter	dzjoX	tsjoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zɨʌX/	/t͡sɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ziɔX/	/t͡siɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ziɔX/	/t͡siɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zɨə̆X/	/t͡sɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/d͡ziɔX/	/t͡siɔX/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭoX/	/t͡sĭoX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi̯woX/	/t͡si̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jù	jǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeoi6	zeoi2

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	咀	咀
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10416	10437
Phonetic component	且	且
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	苴
Old Chinese	/*ʔsaʔ/	/*zaʔ/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jǔ (ju³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chú / chír / chó͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zu¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹tsy

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyǔ
    • Wade–Giles: chü³
    • Yale: jyǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeu
    • Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zeoi²
    • Yale: jéui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵy̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chú
    • Tâi-lô: tsú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chír
    • Tâi-lô: tsír
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chó͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zor
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔ⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zu¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹tsy
    • MiniDict: tsy^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tsr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sz̩⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzjoX, tsjoX

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsaʔ/, /*zaʔ/

Definitions

咀

1. to chew; to masticate

Compounds

• 叱咀
• 吞咀
• 含咀
• 吱咀
• 含商咀徵 / 含商咀征
• 含宮咀徵 / 含宫咀征
• 含英咀華 / 含英咀华 (hányīngjǔhuá)
• 含菁咀華 / 含菁咀华
• 咀吞
• 咀吸口
• 咀味
• 咀咒 (jǔzhòu)
• 咀咂
• 咀唔
• 咀啖
• 咀啜
• 咀嚅
• 咀嚥 / 咀咽
• 咀嚼 (jǔjué)
• 咀嚼肌 (jǔjuéjī)
• 咀徵含商 / 咀征含商
• 咀片
• 咀臉 / 咀脸
• 咀英嚼華 / 咀英嚼华
• 咀茹
• 咀藥 / 咀药
• 咀詠 / 咀咏
• 咀譙 / 咀谯
• 咀賴羅 / 咀赖罗 (jǔlàiluó)
• 咀齧 / 咀啮
• 啜咀
• 啜英咀華 / 啜英咀华
• 噍咀
• 嚼咀
• 嚼鐵咀金 / 嚼铁咀金
• 循咀
• 涵咀
• 白口咀咒
• 耐人咀嚼
• 龍雕鳳咀 / 龙雕凤咀

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 咀 – see 嘴 (“mouth; etc.”). (This character is the former (1969–1976) Singaporean simplified, second-round simplified, and variant form of 嘴).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Usage notes

It is still commonly used as a shorthand. Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of 咀 as the simplified form of 嘴 (zuǐ).

Compounds

• 喻咀 (Yùzuǐ)
• 尖沙咀 (Jiānshāzuǐ)
• 秦咀 (Qínzuǐ)