咯
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3 readings · tap one to hear it
(phonetic)
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 口 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 咯
- Common rank
- #2,943
- Unicode
- U+54AF
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 咯
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 咯血 | to cough up blood; to have hemoptysis | |
| 咯咯笑 | chuckle | |
| 异咯嗪 | isoalloxazine (name of organic chemical) | |
| 乙酰胺吡咯烷酮 | (pharmacology) piracetam (C6H10N2O2), a nootropic | |
| 咯咯 | (onom.) gurgle | |
| 咯咯哒 | (slang) chicken (playful term, from the sound a chicken makes); (slang) prostitute; hooker… | |
| 咯吱 | (onom.) creak; groan | |
| 吡咯 | pyrrole (C4H5N) (loanword) | |
| 咯嚓 | to break into two (onom.) | |
| 咯噔 | (onom.) thump; clunk (e.g. of footsteps or impact); (fig.) a sudden emotional jolt; heart … |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 各 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 各 sound part | individual; each, every; all | |
| 路 | road, path, street; journey | |
| 格 | form, pattern, standard | |
| 洛 | a river in the Shanxi province; a city | |
| 略 | approximate, rough; outline, summary; plan, plot | |
| 络 | web, net; to entangle | |
| 阁 | cabinet, chamber, pavilion | |
| 酪 | cream, cheese; koumiss | |
| 胳 | arms; armpit | |
| 骆 | camel | |
| 烙 | to burn, to brand; hot iron | |
| 恪 | respectful, reverent | |
| 珞 | a kind of necklace | |
| 貉 | raccoon dog | |
| 骼 | bone, skeleton; corpse | |
| 饹 | buckwheat or sorghum noodles | |
| 铬 | chromium | |
| 袼 | gusset, cloth fitting-sleeve | |
| 硌 | hard, bulging |