verb #40,685

Meanings

  1. 1 (of something hard or rough) to press uncomfortably against the body
  2. 2 to chafe
  3. 3 to hurt by digging in (like a stone in one's shoe)

Examples

Xié lǐ yǒu kē shízǐ gè jiǎo.
There's a pebble in my shoe digging into my foot.
Chuáng shàng yǒu shénme dōngxi gè de wǒ shuì bù zháo.
Something on the bed is poking me — I can't sleep.

Tips

memory
= (stone radical) + . The stone radical is the giveaway — it's specifically about a hard object pressing into flesh. Think of stepping on a Lego brick: that sensation is .
mistakes
Colloquial — pronounced gè in this 'press uncomfortably' sense. The character also has a literary reading luò (in 'gritty against teeth'), but spoken Mandarin almost always uses gè.

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