咬yǎo
to bite. 9 strokes, radical 口, first met in HSK 5.
Pinyin yǎoStrokes 9Radical 口Band HSK 5Words 1
How to write 咬
Strokes 1–3 write 口, then strokes 4–9 write 交.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 咬 · the stroke-order rules
What 咬 is made of
口 (kǒu, mouth) and 交 (jiāo, to connect).
口 carries the meaning — mouth — and 交 carries the sound.
Words that use 咬
| 咬 | to bite 指用牙齿用力夹住东西 小狗在草地上欢快咬着飞盘。The puppy happily bit at the flying disc on the lawn. Lesson 509, 远见博览 · 崇德博雅与求索笃行 · Scholarly Pursuit & Civic Virtue |
Characters that share the sound part 交
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 口
All 80 of them, and what the radical means, on the 口 radical page.