颚
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jaw; palate
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 頁 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 顎
- Common rank
- #3,116
- Unicode
- U+989A
Formation & memory
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Words with 颚
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 上颚正门齿 | maxillary central incisor | |
| 齿颚矫正学 | (Tw) orthodontics | |
| 小颚 | mandible (lower jaw) | |
| 下颚 | mandible (lower jaw) | |
| 毒颚 | forcipules (the venomous pair of pincer-like appendages of a centipede) | |
| 颚部 | jaw | |
| 唇颚裂 | cleft lip and palate | |
| 颚裂 | cleft palate (birth defect) | |
| 颚龈音 | prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics); palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics) | |
| 龈颚音 | prepalatal sound (linguistics) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 咢 — compare how they read.