舌尖

tip of tongue / apical

Characters and words in 舌尖

used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
tongue

= + : Sherlock Holmes squashed his tongue under a kilo just inside the elevator's kitchen! He tries to stem the kilo with a mandarin, but not very successfully.
point (of needle) / sharp / shrewd / pointed

= + : The robot (大) picked up a daisy (小) for Joan of Arc (ji) and gives it to her in front of the anthill (an1). He cut the daisy so sharply though that the Joan of Arc pricks her hand on the sharp (尖) end.
pointed; tapering; sharp / (of a sound) shrill; piercing / (of one's hearing, sight etc) sharp; acute; keen / to make (one's voice) shrill / sharp point; tip / the best of sth; the cream of the crop

Words with 舌尖

alveolar / consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge
retroflex sound (e.g. in Mandarin zh, ch, sh, r)
apical consonant (produced with the tip of the tongue, i.e. d or t)
alveolar trill (e.g. Russian r sound)

Sentences with 舌尖

舌尖 currently does not appear in any sentence.