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狎

xiá
verb #51,699

Meanings

  1. 1 to treat with disrespectful familiarity
  2. 2 to take liberties with
  3. 3 to treat frivolously

Examples

他狎弄女子，大家都讨厌他。
Tā xiá
He took improper liberties with the women, and everyone disliked him.
驴子靠近后，对老虎越发狎了。
Xiá
Coming closer, the donkey grew more reckless with the tiger.

Tips

register
狎 is a literary, bound character. It carries a negative sense of being overly familiar in a disrespectful or improper way, often in set phrases like 狎妓 (to consort with prostitutes).

Components

radical
犭 quǎn
dog
犭 is the dog radical 犬 in left-side form. The original sense was a tamed dog playing with people, which broadened to overly casual closeness.
phonetic
甲 jiǎ
armor; first
甲 supplies the sound, shifted from jiǎ to xiá. It functions purely as the phonetic element here, lending no meaning.

Stroke Order

狎 xiá