齁

hōu
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to snore
  2. 2 (dialect) cloyingly salty or sweet (so as to be hard to swallow)
  3. 3 (dialect) very; extremely

Examples

HSK 6
Zhè tāng xián de hōu sǎngzi.
This soup is so salty it catches in your throat.

Tips

register
齁 is colloquial and dialectal. Besides 'to snore', northern speakers use it for food too salty or sweet to swallow (齁咸), and as an intensifier like 'super' (齁甜 = super sweet).

Components

radical
鼻 bí
nose
The 鼻 (nose) radical on the left carries the meaning: snoring is a noise made through the nose. It is one of the rarer radicals, also seen in 鼾 (to snore loudly).
phonetic
句 jù
sentence; phrase
Right side 句 is the sound element, here read in its old gōu value, drifting to hōu. It contributes no 'sentence' meaning - it is purely the phonetic tag for this snoring word.

No stroke data for 齁; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.

Stroke Order

齁 hōu