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吮 U+542E, 吮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-542E ← 吭 [U+542D] CJK Unified Ideographs 启 → [U+542F]

吮 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口戈竹山 (RIHU), four-corner 6301₀, composition ⿰口允)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 178, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3356
• Dae Jaweon: page 396, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 597, character 4
• Unihan data for U+542E

simp. and trad.		吮
alternative forms		損／损 Cantonese, nonstadard

吮

1. to suck (with one's mouth)

simp. and trad.		吮
alternative forms		㖺 𦧊 啃 嗑

吮

1. (Hokkien) to pick off or strip off or scrape off edible food from inedible material like bone, shell, or seeds (usually with one's teeth and/or tongue)
2. (Hokkien) to gnaw; to nibble off causing holes (by insects)
3. (Hokkien) to comb; to pluck or pick off dirt (as a bird grooms itself with its beak)
4. (Hokkien, figurative) to nitpick; to find fault; to be fussy

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00532

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): せん (sen)、しゅん (shun)
• Kun: すう (suu, 吮う)

吮 (eum 전 (jeon))

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吮: Hán Nôm readings: duyện, giỏn, duyên

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