舔
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Translingual
Han character
舔 (Kangxi radical 135, 舌+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹口竹大心 (HRHKP) or 竹口一大心 (HRMKP), four-corner 22633, composition ⿰舌忝)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1007, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30312
- Dae Jaweon: page 1464, character 21
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2944, character 4
- Unihan data for U+8214
Chinese
trad. | 舔 | |
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simp. # | 舔 | |
alternative forms | 㖭 餂/𱃺 舐 Cantonese vernacular |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (天) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *l̥ʰiːmʔ) : semantic 舌 (“tongue”) + phonetic 忝 (OC *l̥ʰiːmʔ, *l̥ʰiːms).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ljam (“tongue; flame”). The Cantonese vernacular reading (Guangzhou lim2 or lem2; Taishan liam2) preserves the Old Chinese lateral initial *l̥-.
Pronunciation
Definitions
舔
- (transitive) to lick
- (figurative, slang, transitive) to suck up to; to brownnose
- 舔共 ― tiǎn Gòng ― to suck up to the Communist Party of China
- 舔日 ― tiǎn Rì ― to suck up to Japan
- 舔美 ― tiǎn Měi ― to suck up to the United States
Usage notes
- (to suck up to): Often takes objects that are abbreviated forms, as shown in the examples.
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 舔 (“to lick”) [map]
References
- “舔”, 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–
Japanese
Kanji
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Vietnamese
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