吧唧

bājī
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to smack one's lips (while eating)
  2. 2 to make a squelching/squishing sound
  3. 3 splat; smack

Examples

Tā chīfàn lǎoshì bājī zuǐ, hěn bù lǐmào.
He always smacks his lips while eating - it's very rude.
Tā yī jiǎo cǎi jìn ní lǐ, bājī yī shēng.
He stepped into the mud with a squelch.

Tips

culture
吧唧嘴 (smacking one's lips while chewing) is one of the most-cited bad table manners in mainland Chinese etiquette guides, alongside 翘二郎腿 (crossing legs at the table) and 用筷子指人 (pointing with chopsticks).
register
Both senses are colloquial. The mouth-smacking sense is sometimes pronounced 吧唧 with a neutral tone on the second syllable. The onomatopoeia sense is the squelchy step/kiss/slap kind of sound.

Stroke Order

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