to bite / to nip

= + : Linus Pauling (交) asks Maud Younger (y) for something to eat in the aorta (ao3). Maud gives him a mandarin (口) and Linus thankfully bites (咬) it.
variant of 咬[yao3]

= + : Linus Pauling (交) asks Maud Younger (y) for something to eat in the aorta (ao3). Maud gives him a mandarin (口) and Linus thankfully bites (咬) it.

咬 character breakdown

to hand over / to deliver / to pay (money) / to turn over / to make friends / to intersect (lines) / variant of 跤[jiao1]

= + : Linus Pauling, a famous scientist with a beret. Father Time commands Linus Pauling to hand over his beret to him in front of the aorta, but Joan of Arc comes to his rescue.
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

Characters with 咬 as component

咬 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 咬

to clench one's teeth / to grind the teeth / gnaw
(idiom) to gnash one's teeth; to fume with rage
gnashing one's teeth (idiom); displaying extreme anger / fuming with rage between gritted teeth
to assert / to insist that
(of uneven surfaces) to fit together / (of gear wheels) to mesh / (dentistry) occlusion / bite
to chew / to masticate / to ruminate / to mull over
variant of 咬嚙|咬啮[yao3 nie4] / to gnaw
(of fish) to bite
(coll.) to whisper in sb's ear
to commit suicide by biting off one's tongue

Sentences with 咬

咬 currently does not appear in any sentence.