舌頭

简 舌头 · 繁 舌頭
Mandarin · pinyin shé tou

Meanings

  1. tongue
  2. Classifier: 個 gè
  3. enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information
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舌
shé · tongue; clapper of bell; Kangxi radical 135
頭
tóu · head; top; chief, first; boss
头
tóu · head; top; chief, first; boss
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2–5 · she2 tou5

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

sit3 tau4 · sit6 tau4

Cantonese word readings for 舌頭. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun · Etymology 1

  1. tongue
  2. (Beijing Mandarin) clapper of a bell
  3. (Beijing Mandarin) endocarp of a persimmon
  4. (dated) ability to talk
  5. (dated) enemy operative captured to extract information

verb · Etymology 1

  1. (archaic) to gossip

noun · Etymology 2

  1. (Northern Min) tonguetip
  2. (Central Min) root of the tongue; back of the tongue

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