- 扌(hand)RADICAL
- 叟(old man; old geezer)PHONO-SEMANTIC
Groping with hands in the dark like an old man searching through bottles.
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搜肠刮肚
搜肠刮肚
to search one's guts and belly (idiom); to racks one's brains for a solution
1 meaning
MEANING
MEANING
- 壹动verb
to search one's guts and belly (idiom); to racks one's brains for a solution
- 。
He racked his brains trying to think of a solution.
STROKE ORDER
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解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 舌(blade; tongue)PHONO-SEMANTIC
- 刂(knife; blade (radical))RADICAL
A scraping blade close to the edge depicts the action of scraping, so 刮 means to scrape clean.
⿰(left-right)
⺼
昜
搜肠刮肚
Traditional搜腸刮肚
to search one's guts and belly (idiom); to racks one's brains for a solution
1 meaning
MEANING
MEANING
- 壹动verb
to search one's guts and belly (idiom); to racks one's brains for a solution
- 。
He racked his brains trying to think of a solution.
STROKE ORDER
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⿰(left-right)
⺼
昜
解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 扌(hand)RADICAL
- 叟(old man; old geezer)PHONO-SEMANTIC
Groping with hands in the dark like an old man searching through bottles.
解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 舌(blade; tongue)PHONO-SEMANTIC
- 刂(knife; blade (radical))RADICAL
A scraping blade close to the edge depicts the action of scraping, so 刮 means to scrape clean.
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