呙 (guō) · a crooked or twisted mouth (archaic); a surname

Meanings

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

Characters

呙

guō

crooked mouth (archaic)

Examples

HSK 5

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

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