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呙

咼
guō
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 a crooked or twisted mouth (archaic); a surname

Examples

HSK 6
妈妈在锅里煮汤。
Māma zài guō lǐ zhǔ tāng.
Mom is cooking soup in the pot.

Tips

history
呙 (simplified from 咼) meant 'a mouth out of true' and is not used independently in modern Chinese. It is the phonetic core in 锅 (pot / pan), 涡 (whirlpool), 窝 (nest), 蜗 (snail), and 过 (to pass / cross).

Components

radical
口 kǒu
mouth
The 'mouth' below carries the literal sense of a twisted mouth and is the indexing radical for 呙.
ideograph
冎 guǎ
twisted frame
The hooked upper frame is a stylized 'crooked / off-center' element sitting above the mouth in 呙.

Stroke Order

呙 guō