Japanese Word Entry

唇齒

Simplified Japanese form: 唇歯

Kana:しんし
Romaji:shinshi
Definitions:
  1. lips and teeth

  2. mutually dependent relation


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Chinese characters used in this word

lips
Readings
Mandarin: ㄔㄨㄣˊ (chún), ㄓㄣ (zhēn), ㄓㄣˋ (zhèn)
Cantonese: seon4
Japanese: シン (shin) / くちびる (kuchibiru)
Korean: 진 (jin)
Vietnamese: thần
Variants
Semantic variant form:

tooth, cog, teeth, gears, cogs, age, Kangxi radical 211
Readings
Mandarin: ㄔˇ (chǐ)
Cantonese: ci2
Japanese: シ (shi) / よわい (yowai)、 は (ha)、 よわい.する (yowaisuru)
Korean: 치 (chi)
Vietnamese: xỉ
Variants
Simplified Chinese form: 齿
Simplified Japanese form: