舌  shé MC: zyet OC: sbljed 12 AttributionsWD

The current standard word for the tongue of humans or animals is shé 舌.

Word relations
• Oppos: 筆/BRUSH2 Attributions
• Oppos: 齒/TOOTH Chǐ 齒 refers to the visible front teeth, thus when one smiles one shows one's chǐ 齒, xiàn chǐ 見齒, and only if one were vampire-like would one show any yá 牙. Chǐ 齒 does not typically refer to the teeth as weapons of aggressive action. The teeth by which one judges age are always chǐ 齒, and the teeth with which one commonly chews tend quite as often to be chǐ 齒. The front teeth that get cold when the lips are gone, are chǐ 齒 in classical Chinese, and they are not seen in that common saying as aggressive weapons. The admirable white teeth of a lady are the chǐ 齒, only in the case of vampires yá 牙. We have goǔ yá 狗牙 but mǎ chí 馬齒. One grinds one's chǐ 齒, 切齒, not one's yá 牙. The first teeth of a child are never yá 牙 and regularly chǐ 齒, and similarly for the teeth that an old man loses, when chǐ duò 齒墮"the teeth fall out". Interestingly, the elephant has chǐ 齒, never yá 牙, presumably because these tusks were taken to be a threat to his own survival, not to man. 1 Attribution

Syntactic words
• ntongue11 Attributions
• nfigurativeclapper (to beat bronze bells with)1 Attribution

舌頭  shé tóu OC: sbljed doo MC: ʑiɛt du 1 AttributionWD

Syntactic words
• NPfigurativetongue > words, speech1 Attribution

臄  jué OC: ɡlaɡ MC: gi̯ɐk 0 AttributionsWD

Syntactic words
• ntongue (Shi)0 Attributions