咬

咬 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口卜金大 (RYCK), four-corner 6004₈, composition ⿰口交)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 186, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3543
• Dae Jaweon: page 406, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 621, character 2
• Unihan data for U+54AC

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kreːw, *ŋɡreːwʔ, *qreːw) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 交 (OC *kreːw).

(oral sex): Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 口 + 交.

Perhaps Sino-Tibetan; compare Chepang ङेव्‍ह्‌सा (ŋewh-, “to nibble”) (Schuessler, 2007). The Min vernacular readings are reminiscent of Proto-Tai *giəwꟲ (“to chew”), whence Thai เคี้ยว (kíao) (ibid.).

咬

1. to bite; to snap at; to gnaw

   一條狗咬了他的腿。 [MSC, trad.]
   一条狗咬了他的腿。 [MSC, simp.]

   Yī tiáo gǒu yǎole tā de tuǐ. [Pinyin]

   A dog snapped at his leg.

   他被響尾蛇咬過。 [MSC, trad.]
   他被响尾蛇咬过。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā bèi xiǎngwěishé yǎoguo. [Pinyin]

   He had been bitten by a rattlesnake.

2. to incriminate; to accuse

   他站在被告席上，什麼都招認，什麼人都咬。 [MSC, trad.]
   他站在被告席上，什么都招认，什么人都咬。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā zhàn zài bèigào xí shàng, shénme dōu zhāorèn, shénme rén dōu yǎo. [Pinyin]

   He was in the public dock, confessing everything, implicating everybody.

3. to articulate; to pronounce

   這個字他咬得很準。 [MSC, trad.]
   这个字他咬得很准。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè ge zì tā yǎo dé hěn zhǔn. [Pinyin]

   He can pronounce this word correctly.

   • 1919, 《新舊約全書：官話和合譯本》 [Mandarin Bible, Union Version], Shanghai: American Bible Society, 士師記 [Judges] 12:6:

     就對他說、你說示播列．以法蓮人、因爲咬不眞字音、便說西播列． [MSC, trad.]
     就对他说、你说示播列．以法莲人、因为咬不真字音、便说西播列． [MSC, simp.]

     jiù duì tā shuō, Nǐ shuō shìbōliè. Yǐfǎliánrén, yīnwèi yǎo bù zhēn zìyīn, biàn shuō xībōliè. [Pinyin]

     they said to him, “Then say Shibboleth,” and he [the Ephraimite] said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. (English Standard Version)

4. to be nitpicking on words

   別老咬住我那句話不放。 [MSC, trad.]
   别老咬住我那句话不放。 [MSC, simp.]

   Bié lǎo yǎo zhù wǒ nà jù huà bù fàng. [Pinyin]

   Don't keep nagging me about that remark of mine.

5. (of dog) to bark
6. (dialectal Mandarin, Jin) itchy
7. (neologism, slang, euphemistic) Alternative form of 口交 (kǒujiāo, “oral sex; to perform oral sex on”)

咬

1. Only used in 咬咬.

咬

1. Only used in 咬哇 and 哇咬.

• “咬”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #4789”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}; ぎょう (gyō)^{←げう (geu, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}; ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kun: かむ (kamu, 咬む)

咬 • (gyo) (hangeul 교, revised gyo, McCune–Reischauer kyo, Yale kyo)

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咬: Hán Nôm readings: giảo, rao, ngẩu, ngấu, ngảo, ngảu, ngáu

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