jiào

chew

Components

Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth

mouth

Sound component
jiāo burned

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdzjewH[dz]ewk-schew
Zhengzhangʔsew
zews

說文解字

齧也。从口焦聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica