舌

• In traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau), this character is written with 干 as the upper component, which is also the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In simplified Chinese, (mainland China and Singapore), Japanese Kanji, Korean Hanja and Vietnamese Nom script, this character is written with 千 as the upper component.

舌 (radical 135, 舌+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹十口 (HJR), four-corner 2060₄, composition ⿱千口(GJKV) or ⿱干口(HT))

1. Kangxi radical #135, ⾆.

• Index:Chinese radical/舌
• 佸, 㓉, 咶, 姡, 恬, 括, 活, 䏦, 栝, 狧, 甛, 䄆, 秳, 絬, 聒, 蛞, 話(话), 𧵳(䞌), 趏, 䟯, 䣶, 銛(铦), 餂, 颳, 䯏, 刮, 頢(𬱠), 鴰(鸹), 䒷, 筈, 髺, 䦚
• 适, 敌 (Simplified from the component 啇)
• 乱, 辞, 𦯠 (Simplified from the component 𤔔)

• KangXi: page 1006, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30277
• Dae Jaweon: page 1463, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2941, character 1
• Unihan data for U+820C

Historical forms of the character 舌
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a forked tongue emerging upwards from a mouth (口).

From 舐 (OC *ɦljeʔ, “to lick”) + *-t (“nominal suffix for natural objects”), literally “licker” (Schuessler, 2007).

舌

1. (anatomy) tongue
2. tongue-shaped object
3. clapper of a bell
4. A surname​.

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. tongue
2. reed of a woodwind (musical instrument)
3. clapper of a bell

• Go-on: ぜち (zechi); ぜつ (zetsu, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ぜつ (zetsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: した (shita, 舌, Jōyō)

From Old Japanese.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) した​ [shìtáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [ɕi̥ta̠]

舌 (hiragana した, rōmaji shita)

1. tongue

   Synonym: べろ (bero)

舌 • (seol) (hangeul 설, McCune–Reischauer sŏl, Yale sel)

1. tongue

舌

• Kun: しちゃー (shichaa)

• IPA^(key): /ɕit͡ɕaː/

舌 (hiragana しちゃー, romaji shichā)

1. tongue

舌

• Kun: すだ (suda)

• IPA^(key): /ss̩da/

舌 (hiragana すだ, romaji suda)

1. tongue

舌

• Kun: しちゃ (shicha)

• IPA^(key): /ɕit͡ɕa/

舌 (hiragana しちゃ, romaji shicha)

1. tongue

舌 (thiệt, thịt)

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舌

• Kun: しぃたー (sïtā)

• IPA^(key): /sɨta/

舌 (hiragana しぃたー, romaji sïtā)

1. tongue

舌

• Kun: った (tta)

• IPA^(key): /tˀa/

舌 (hiragana った, romaji tta)

1. tongue