armpit

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

各 sound component

  Sound component

  

each

Evolution

胳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
胳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

armpit, arms; armpit

() 

variant of [gē]

Most common words with 胳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

胳膊

arm

胳臂

arm

胳膊肘

elbow

variant of 胳[gē]

胳肢

(dialect) to tickle