舌 Radical 135 — the tongue; taste, speech
shé (second tone, rising)
the tongue; taste, speech
Radical 1356 strokes0 characters
Where the shape comes from
A tongue reaching out past the lips of a mouth 口, its tip forked the way a snake’s or an old stylised tongue was often drawn. Paired with the speech radical it gives 话, speech, words, talk, the tongue that shapes what is said, and it names the act itself in 舔, to lick.
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