硌 meaning and stroke order
Hard, bulging
How to write 硌, stroke by stroke
11 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.
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Meaning of 硌
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.
- (coll.) (of sth hard or rough) to press against some part of one's body causing discomfort (like a small stone in one's shoe)
- to hurt
- to chafe
How 硌 is built
Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Stone.
石 gives the meaning and 各 hints at the sound.
Radical: 石 (stone), shared by 114 characters on this site.
How to remember 硌
硌 combines 石 (shí, stone) with 各 (gè), which gives the sound. Picture a little stone pressing into your foot, and it says gè as it hurts.
硌 is a colloquial verb for something hard or lumpy pressing uncomfortably against your body, like a pebble in a shoe or a hard bed. It often appears in the pattern 硌 + body part. Example: 鞋里有沙子，硌脚。(Xié lǐ yǒu shāzi, gè jiǎo.) There is sand in my shoe and it hurts my foot.
Common mistake: Learners sometimes confuse 硌 with 格 (gé) or 胳 (gē), which share the 各 part but have different radicals and meanings. Remember that the stone radical 石 marks the hard thing that presses on you, and the tone is fourth tone gè.
Questions about 硌
How many strokes are in 硌?
硌 is written with 11 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.
What does 硌 mean?
硌 (gè) means hard, bulging.
How do you pronounce 硌?
硌 is pronounced gè, in the fourth tone (falling).
What is the radical of 硌?
The radical of 硌 is 石, which carries the idea of "stone". Dictionaries list 硌 under this radical.
What does 硌牙 mean?
硌牙 (gè yá) means biting on something hard, like a small stone in rice, that hurts your teeth. People say it when food has grit in it.
Does 硌 have another pronunciation?
In the data given here, 硌 is read gè with the meaning of pressing and causing discomfort. That is the reading you will hear in everyday speech.