咬
Definition
* 上下牙对住，压碎或夹住东西。 ～啮。～噬。～紧牙关。 * 钳子等夹住或螺丝齿轮等卡住。 ～合。～住扣。 * 喻话说定了不再改变，亦指受责难或审讯时拉扯不相关的人。 一口～定。乱～好人。 * 狗叫。 鸡叫狗～。 * 正确地读字音，亦指过分地计较字句的意义。 ～字儿。～文嚼字（过分地斟酌字句，多用来讽刺死抠字眼儿而不领会精神实质）。 * 追赶进逼。 双方比分～得很紧
bite, gnaw
Structure
Related substructures
Precursors
Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
Liushutong Seal Forms
Pre-Qin to Han seal-type forms (≤220 CE) / compiled 1661 (Min Qiji); collated and printed 1720 (Bi Hongshu)
A ten-volume compendium of seal-script variants arranged by the rhymes of Hongwu Zhengyun: each head character gives its Shuowen small seal form, then variants gathered from guwen, zhouwen, bronze inscriptions and Qin–Han seals. Long a standard reference for seal carvers, but the forms are compiled rather than excavated and were collected with little vetting, so many are of doubtful authenticity.Wikimedia Commons ->