腮
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cheek
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 肉 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 腮
- Common rank
- #2,558
- Unicode
- U+816E
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 腮
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 落腮胡子 | variant of 絡腮鬍子|络腮胡子[luo4 sai1 hu2 zi5] | |
| 麻腮风 | measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) (abbr. for 麻疹[ma2 zhen3] + 流行性腮腺炎[liu2 xing2 xing4 sai1 x… | |
| 络腮胡子 | full beard | |
| 桃腮粉脸 | rosy-cheeked (idiom) | |
| 发腮 | (of a cat) to develop a fuller, rounder face; (by extension, of a human) to develop a broa… | |
| 腮红 | rouge (cosmetics) | |
| 腮帮子 | cheek | |
| 托腮 | to rest one's chin in one's hand | |
| 腮托 | chin rest (e.g. for a violin) | |
| 腮腺炎 | mumps | |
| 腮胡 | sideburns | |
| 杏脸桃腮 | (idiom) (of a woman) having a fair complexion with rosy cheeks; beautiful | |
| 笨嘴拙腮 | see 笨嘴拙舌[ben4 zui3 zhuo1 she2] | |
| 抓耳挠腮 | to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustr… | |
| 腮腺 | parotid gland; saliva gland in cheek | |
| 腮帮 | cheek; upper (of a shoe) | |
| 腮颊 | cheek; jaw |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 思 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 思 sound part | to think, to ponder, to consider; final particle | |
| 鳃 | fish gills | |
| 缌 | fine linen | |
| 葸 | afraid, bashful, insecure | |
| 锶 | strontium |