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舔 is a phono-semantic compound character: the radical 舌 (shé, 'tongue') on the left represents the tongue, the body part that performs the licking action, while the component 忝 (tiǎn, 'to shame or disgrace') on the right is a phonetic marker that gives the pronunciation tiǎn without carrying over its meaning. The character's primary meaning is the act of passing the tongue over a surface to taste, wet, or clean something, and it appears both in literal contexts describing human or animal behavior and in figurative colloquial expressions of fawning or flattery.
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小狗舔我的手掌。
孩子舔着甜筒。
猫经常舔自己的爪子。
他舔了舔干燥的嘴唇。
请不要舔你的伤口。
那只熊在舔蜂蜜。
她用舌头舔了舔邮票。
谄媚者喜欢舔上司的鞋子。
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